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East Orange has many faces: the tree-lined streets and substantial houses of the well-heeled First Ward, the old, rundown frame houses of the Fifth Ward, the modern apartment buildings that tower over both. The citizens of East Orange lead parallel but unlinked lives. Some 55% to 60% of them are black, and black-white contacts are guarded. "I have the feeling that people don't quite trust one another,'' says Mrs. Dorothy Scull, a school board member. But there is more to their isolation from one another than race. Many of the homeowners feel that...
FROM a door of Chicago's cavernous McCormick Place came the glorious skirl of bagpipes and the thunderous roll of drums. Smartly clad in black jackets and Kennedy tartan kilts, the Eleventh Ward Shannon Rovers began their march down the 600-ft.-long red carpet. The walls reverberated to the strains of the Garry Owen march, the favorite tune of the guest of honor, the present and almost certainly future mayor of the city of Chicago-Richard J. Daley...
...reviewer for Ward Just's book Military Men [Feb. 8] ended with the question: "In the complex, chaotic America of today, can a citizen's army really work?" The answer is implicit in Just's book. It is that military men are not citizens of the U.S. They live "on post," a country on the other side of guard gates and cable fences, a land with its own doctrine and traditions, its own norms for dress and grooming, its own schools, its own ideas of the past and future, its own newspapers with their own ideas about...
Sometime in the last 20 years, the military men seceded from the union, and Ward Just is one of the rare souls who has noticed...
Crichton's drama follows five patients (surprise!) whose bodies find their way into the hospital for various reasons. Patient one is a construction worker who is rushed into the emergency ward after an accident. His heart has stopped and the medical teams try bravely to save his life, but fail. Following a dramatic account of the medical effort, Crichton offers a heavy dose of "what this all means" in the context of a changing hospital system. "What this all means" unfortunately has little to do with modern health care and has even less that is not so obvious...