Nation: Patricia Wall's Enlistment

PATRICIA WALL is not an activist.

She is a Democrat of center-stripe conviction, a Roman Catholic, a young (31) suburban (Evanston, Ill.) mother of two and wife of a vice president at the First National Bank of Chicago. Her joiner's urge has been satisfied by participation in the 4-H Club. When she told her husband Bernard that she planned to attend a Moratorium observance at Mundelein College, he had a surprise for her too: he had decided to take part in a businessmen's discussion of the war at his downtown bank.

A year ago, Mrs. Wall, a petite, college-educated brunette, would have hung...

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