Word: 39th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected, Italy's 39th government since the fall of Fascism in 1943 went the way of all the others last week. But nothing demonstrated the changing times and mood more than the manner in which the government fell...
...hotel offered free coffee and food through the night to hundreds of people who milled through the lobby; employees clambered up the stairs each hour with food for the guests on the upper floors. "Alors, c 'est extraordinaire!" exclaimed a Swiss tourist, Irene Baillod, after trudging down from her 39th-floor room only to find that she had left behind flash cubes for her camera...
...afternoon the 39th President, Jimmy Carter, had reclaimed his rightful share of attention by calling an outspoken general back from Korea, setting a new arms-sales policy, dismissing Nixon's singular view of a President's power and asking one of his old opponents in the scramble to reach the White House, Scoop Jackson, to come around with his wife and kids that night for quail, okra and a fancy pudding...
...century of Southern estrangement from the nation was over. A remarkable political journey-one that led in only two years from the red clay fields of south Georgia to America's highest office-was at an end. Jimmy Carter, at 52, was the 39th President of the United States...
Warren Earl Burger was understandably miffed when the mail brought his invitation to Jimmy Carter's Inauguration this week as the 39th President of the U.S. It asked a fee of $25 for a hard, wooden bleacher seat to watch the 2-hr. Inaugural parade. "If I have to pay $25," joked the Chief Justice of the U.S., "I'll charge Carter $50 to swear...