Word: ager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four, John House man (then Jacques Haussmann) had spent two birthdays on the Simplon-Orient Express. It is an image with which to connect the 70 years that have gone into this urbane, fascinating and graceful memoir. Houseman was and is a restless, slightly exotic voy ager through life and drama...
...technical half of the event, that her competent but dull performance in freestyle skating did not deter her from winning the gold medal on total points. The freest spirit of all was U.S. Skater Janet Lynn. A pixy in pink, the tiny (5 ft. 2 in., 108 Ibs.) teen-ager whirled through her double Salchows and camel spins with grace and a kind of smiling elan, despite a fall, to win the freestyle and a bronze medal overall...
Pony-tailed Teen-Ager Chris Evert became an instant favorite with the gallery when she arrived at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships in Forest Hills, N.Y., five months ago. But many experts doubted that she was ready for the stiff world-class competition she would meet in center court. Unseeded and playing on grass for one of the few times in her brief career, "Little Miss Cool" nonetheless battled her way into the semifinals, winning one gutsy, come-from-behind victory after another. Then, alas, she met Mrs. Billie Jean King, the reigning queen of U.S. tennis. Billie Jean...
...call it "the story of a boy who got a girl out of trouble," but To Find a Man isn't quite so bad as it sounds. Andy (Darren O'Connor) is a wealthy teen-ager with a high-power IQ. His childhood chum Rosalind (Pamela Martin), who has recently acquired what her mother characterizes as "the worst case of the hots I've ever seen," has got pregnant. She spends a lot of time at her fancy board ing school trying to give herself an abortion. When the usual dormitory methods - castor oil, Coca-Cola douch...
...minute of the show's commercial time. "You have to have an all-appeal to survive in the top ten in television," says Bill Cosby, whose own show on NBC never did achieve high ratings and lasted only two seasons. "It's no use reaching the teen-ager if the father wants to watch a western or if the mother wants to watch some doctor thing, because the kid loses out. Flip takes in everybody...