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...times of proud power, any President having an Elm Street root system like the above would be subjected to dripping sarcasm by the polemicists of the more sophisticated intellectual organs. There was some of it at first, but it has quieted to a remarkable degree. In a time of stress, like the one we have been through, a lot of people come home again to the fact that the churches and schools, the service clubs and lodge halls hold much of our society together. Jerry Ford's unabashed membership is a factor in his mounting popularity. His world...
...seamless interstate zipper did plunge to the American root. That what-ever-it-is that winked from under hooded flaps of hot-rolled steel and pierced numb-screaming into the pitch of the flesh-ringed blackness; that fired in ringing engines and hung grey-eyed in their dribbling wake. For a day and a half, Fred and I raced through the tidal hours in his bronze-bodied van, but the American whatever stayed with us always. Caught in its plastic envelope like marbles in a dime-store package, we pressed never-ward with eight cylinders and 287 horsepower, spinning down...
...root problem is that everybody wants more. Even in prosperous times, the demands of labor for ever higher wages, of generals and admirals for increasingly sophisticated weapons, and the less affluent for expanded government social services always add up to more than the economy can produce at stable prices. Rather than say no to the demands of any vocal constituency, democratic governments too often find it easier to run huge budget deficits, thus fueling inflation...
...reach him cheats on him, almost in frustration. He disrespects himself for hiring himself out on divorce cases, but he can't help it--the step-by-step of the process fascinates him, as though by compartmentalizing experience and solving things he's getting at the root of his own life...
...southern Mindanao, a solitary Filipino who wandered an unexplored 600-sq. mi. tract of rugged mountain jungle. One day in the early '60s, he followed a trail of strange footprints. Three small brown men, naked except for loin pouches made of leaves, were digging up a large root with a sharp stick. When they saw him, they fled like monkeys. Shouting reassurance, Dafal gave chase until the men stopped in a stream bed, trembling...