Word: bethe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Norn de Prom. In Milwaukee, Pat knew Beth Jenkins, a close friend of Luci's and daughter of former White House Aide Walter Jenkins. When Beth arranged an expedition to Washington in June 1965 to help celebrate Luci's graduation from National Cathedral School, Pat went along. Beth also suggested that Luci be Pat's date at the Marquette senior prom. Freshly unpinned from her most recent steady boy friend, Luci went to Milwaukee with her Secret Service escort, an outrageous blond wig, and a nom de prom (Amy Nunn) to assure privacy. The escapade was successful...
...head of a stinking, garbage-strewn Warsaw slum stairway. There Isaac Bashevis' red-bearded rabbi father (who chastely refused to look a woman in the face and could not, insists Author Singer, recognize his own wife) learnedly ruled his roost. He also ruled his rabbinical court, the Beth Din, an institution that dated from the days of Moses and was a blend of synagogue, law court and psychoanalyst's consulting room for the superstitious, the bereaved and the troubled. For Isaac Bashevis, it exemplified "the celestial council of justice, God's judgment, absolute mercy." One time...
Sabah is also the home of 100 Peace Corps Volunteers, among them Ron Kuhl, a graduate of the University of West Virginia, and Beth Halkola, who received a B.S. in nursing from Michigan State University...
...teacher; Beth is a nurse. Both work in the interior sealed off from the coast by the dense jungle of the Crocker Mountains. Their post, Tambuman, is a town of 1,000 people. Some 10,000 people farm the surrounding countryside, where the careful geometry of the wet rice paddy is dominant...
That their work is both difficult and serious have taught Rom and Both not to take themselves seriously. "You discover what you need anywhere is to be content," Beth said. "It takes time, but you learn to communicate. When you learn to laugh at the same things as the people here ... then you are home...