"And then suddenly I would realize that I couldn’t remember, hadn’t actually consciously experienced, any of the last …"

""Wow, look at all the places you can park,” he said, as if for all these years he had been cruising endlessly, unable…"

"He hit the water—impacted really is the word for it—at over six hundred miles an hour, with a report so loud that it …"

"I remember being profoundly amazed that anyone would suppose that a little wooden desk would provide a safe haven in …"

"So to sleep on the sleeping porch required preparation. First, you put on long underwear, pajamas, jeans, a sweatshir…"

"In those days kitchen matches were heavy-duty implements—more like signal flares than the weedy sticks we get today. …"

"I knew more things in the first ten years of my life than I believe I have known at any time since. I knew everything…"

"On April 3, 1956, according to news reports, a Mrs. Julia Chase of Hagerstown, Maryland, while on a tour of the White…"

"Making models was reputed to be hugely enjoyable... But when you got the kit home and opened the box the contents tur…"

"Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces [in 1968]. The rest were in school, in prison, or were Geor…"