Word: bess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stoically abandoning the Georgetown dinner table and families for duty and the whiff of uncoiling power. For two crisis days, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had been in the Midwest, marinating in the heartland legend of Harry Truman. No better preparation for the moment of action. He had visited Bess Truman in the old family home in Independence, Mo., and heard a Truman neighbor shout: "Give 'em hell, Henry!" On the big crisis night, Kissinger, back in his Washington office, paced, ordering, listening, waiting. He flashed the V sign out the window once, and then, humor fully restored...
...Bess Burke...
Porgy and Bess (1959). Gershwin, Goldwin, Pearl Balley and Sammy Davis Jr. Ch. 5, 9 p.m. Color, 2 1/2 hours...
Karen Morrow belts like Merman. Rob ert Guillaume and Gail Nelson do a stir ring duet from Porgy and Bess. It is all nostalgia, perhaps; yet most of the songs sound as fresh as opening night...
...alternate-day rationing schemes, and other states unofficially stopped enforcing theirs. Sales of big, gas-guzzling cars are picking up. Motels and roadside restaurants are reporting a move back toward normal business. Highways are becoming crowded again, even on Sundays. "We're starting to see tourists again," says Bess Pursell, head of the state information center on the Massachusetts Turnpike, "not only people coming to visit relatives in the hospital...