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...Loye Miller who dug into the soil of Mills's Arkansas, who interviewed Mills's family and friends, looked over the Mills store, house and bank, and provided most of the biographical material. Miller's last cover assignment was closer to home: gathering material for the Harry Byrd cover. Both reporters are second-generation journalists: MacNeil's father was assistant managing editor of the New York Times, Miller's the editor of the Knoxville News-Sentinel...
Unlikely Proposition. These views, and others just as provocative, bloom in the barren soil of Boston, a city so unappreciative of common scolds that in the old days it put them in pillory. Many readers of the Boston Herald, where Frazier's column appears six times a week, write in to suggest that such punishment is much too good for the Herald's uncommon scold. George Frazier, 52, is possibly the most roundly despised man in Boston-and the most widely read...
...prisoners' release with Bobby Kennedy-announced that he had finally gotten the unpredictable dictator at long last to sign an agreement. The terms: a freighter, carrying a cargo of drugs, would sail for Havana; the Bay of Pigs prisoners would be shuttled back aboard four jetliners to U.S. soil before Christmas. In Florida, where thousands of wives and children waited, smiles flickered on faces long drawn by dread...
...forms of sexual play were enormously amusing. "There were two reasons for this," writes Aries. "In the first place, the child under the age of puberty was believed to be unaware of or indifferent to sex . . . Secondly, the idea did not yet exist that references to sexual matters . . . could soil childish innocence; nobody thought that this innocence really existed." Blackboard Jungle. But toward the close of the 15th century, a new attitude arose among the pedagogues: first, that children were innocent, and their innocence should be protected; second, that they had character, which should be strengthened and formed...
...roofed stone house has neither hot water nor electricity. The men and women who inhabit it dress in monkish white costumes woven on their own looms, and advertise their faith by wearing wooden crosses on their breasts. They eat simple, vegetarian meals of food grown in the dry, sandy soil that they work with handmade tools. Five times a day they pause in their labor for prayers...