Winter

trial

DADDY has a chance to get a very important job, but the family will have to leave the island and live in a cold climate in a big, distant city. Bob Underwood, the Democrat congressman-elect from Guam, faced this situation a year ago, and did something unusual about it he moved his wife and his three school-aged children into an apartment in Arlington, across the Potomac River from Washington. They lived there for a month, during the coldest part of the winter, checked out the schools, the climate and the life of a congressman. While Underwood had spent years on the Mainland, and while his wife, Lorraine, is a third generation Mexican-American from California, the East Coast was new to both of them, and the States and winter were totally new to the three children. It was only after assuring himself that his family could cope with the new city that Underwood decided to run against Ben Blaz for the seat in Congress.

Underwood: moved his family