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Smith covered the big games, races and fights, but it seldom mattered who won or lost. What counted was the sights and smells, the cadences of conversation, the laughter of old friends. Precious anecdotes were salted away and used again years later. This ability to call up the past gave his columns a resonance that has grown rare in daily journalism. To be sure, some of the 300-odd pieces gathered in these two volumes should have been left in yesterday's newspaper. But most are timeless, literate and witty enough to appeal to readers who do not know...
Amendment supporters place heavy blame for the defeat on men. Women are, after all, still relatively unrepresented in national and local legislatures. Even powerful male politicians who endorsed the amendment seldom gave it a high priority. Says Liz Carpenter of ERAmerica: "They spent their credit on other issues." Smeal focuses on the "invisible lobby of business" that profits from sexual discrimination. She notes that no trade association, no businessman's alliance, no Chamber of Commerce and no National Association of Manufacturers was on the roll of ERA supporters. But her strongest condemnation is of the insurance industry. NOW claims...
...Corps captain during World War II. There he met and married Army Nurse Helena O'Brien, known as "Obie." They have five children and currently live in a colonial home on the campus of Stanford University, where Shultz teaches part-time. When he is not traveling, which is seldom, Shultz tries to be in bed by 10 p.m. so that he can get "his preferred 5 a.m. jump on the day. His main forms of relaxation are swimming, golf (middle 80s) and tennis...
...even while perpetuating the mystique of monarchy, he will need to be at home with computers and the whole array of space-age technology that may assure Britain's economic survival. He may not have a Merlin to guide him, but the auspices for a future monarch have seldom been more exciting...
...since." The scene now shifts back to Boston, where Davis' comments spark a two-week, citywide search for the statue. Finally, Cornelius Vermeule, curator of classical art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, pieces together the available clues and concludes that the lost relic is in a seldom-trod corner in the museum's basement. The subject of the fuss, a 92-in. bronze statue titled Young Diana, is a rendering of a somewhat androgynous-looking nymph. Vermeule's professional opinion: "There is indeed a strong resemblance-her profile, the contours of her face...