Word: barnette
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...historic Santa Monica pier. Along the ravaged coast, more than 1,600 homes were damaged, including dozens in expensive enclaves of Santa Barbara and Stinson Beach. Tennis Star Billie Jean King's exclusive Malibu home, the subject of a celebrated "palimony" suit by her former lover Marilyn Barnett, was pounded off its foundation and had to be destroyed by officials for safety reasons. A tornado, rare for California, ripped through a section of Los Angeles...
...Former CIA Undercover Agent David Barnett was having trouble making money from his antiques export firm when KGB agents approached him in Indonesia in the early 1970s. They were allegedly willing to pay $100,000 to hear his story of how the CIA had picked up Soviet military hardware from Indonesian naval officers in the 1960s, plus any other trivia about U.S. intelligence operations. In 1977 they prodded him to apply for positions on the Senate and House intelligence committees and the White House Intelligence Oversight Board. He was not accepted. FBI agents arrested...
...quite frank with you," says Robert A. Barnett, who is on leave doing research after his second year. "I didn't see the extra year as an advantage when I was choosing schools." But he adds, "I have a strong interest in research, and the strength of the Harvard program is that you get the strong medical background--I didn't want to be a general dentist...
...ironies of Mississippi have forever baffled the outsider, as they should. Two and a half years after Meredith's admission, Governor Ross Barnett's principal antagonist of that time, Bobby Kennedy, gave the commencement address at Ole Miss. He was introduced by Senator Jim Eastland and received a standing ovation. Twelve years after the event, Ben Williams, also of Yazoo City, the first black football player at Ole Miss, was elected Colonel Rebel by the student body, the highest honor for a male student. (He is now with the Buffalo Bills.) More recently, Mississippi's Leontyne Price...
DIED. Betty Parsons, 82, discerning New York City art dealer who championed a stellar stable of abstract expressionists-Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still-in the post-World War II years when others scorned their works; of a stroke; in Southold...