Word: blonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. By Peggy Ann Garner, 31, onetime child star who grew up and out of fame: Albert Salmi, 35, blond screen and TV actor; on grounds of mental cruelty (she testified that their continuing argument over whether to live in Hollywood or New York caused her to twist her neck violently and develop a thyroid condition); after nearly seven years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Later, races were defined according to "types." There were the blond Nordic type, the dark Spanish type, the Semitic, Negro, and Mongoloid type. But individuals who differed markedly from the type--dark-haired Scandinavians, for instance--could not adequately be classed under this system, and the type system was eventually rejected...
...time, investigators became more cautious, and more obscure. Races were local populations, or subspecies, smaller groupings of men which had become sufficiently isolated from other groups to evolve in specialized ways. Often, the changes were simply alterations in gene frequencies of the groups: some societies had more blue-eyed, blond people than other societies. Observers disagreed sharply on the number of populations sufficiently differentiated to be called separate races. Learned estimates ranged from two to 200 races...
Most auto racers stick to one well-practiced groove-either sports cars, Grand Prix machines, souped-up Detroit stock cars or big Indianapolis racers. Dan Gurney, 31, a lean, blond professional from California, drives anything with wheels-and does it so skillfully that Argentina's retired Juan Miguel Fangio recently went so far as to call him "one of the greatest race drivers in the world." But after eight years on the circuits, Gurney may sometimes wonder if selling insurance would not be better. Few top drivers have suffered through worse luck...
...stiffened by an antagonism as ridiculous as it was real. One was Franz-Josef Strauss, 47, West Germany's bull-bodied, bull-tempered Minister of Defense, who for all his bulk has a skin thin enough to invite puncturing. The other was Der Spiegel's frail, blond Publisher Rudolf Augstein, 39, who has seldom missed a chance to play the matador to Defense Minister Strauss's bull...