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When Cobb County turned hostile, Greaves had a gay-friendly place nearby. That option does not always exist for gays in rural areas, as 400 marchers bore in mind in early June at Montana's first ever gay-pride parade, through the streets of downtown Missoula (pop. 45,000). "You have to understand the risks people here are taking," said Linda Gryczan, the lead plaintiff in a suit challenging the state's sodomy law. "This is different from being one in a million in New York or San Francisco. We are not anonymous anymore." Unlike gay parades in some...
...Giardi bore those burdens with few, if any, complaints, and established a level of excellence in two major sports that is rare in this school's recent history...
...York society; her father, known as "Black Jack" because of his dark good looks, lived recklessly both in the stock market and in his dashing private life. Several of the men whom Jackie later found attractive -- her husband, her father-in-law Joseph Kennedy and, later, Aristotle Onassis -- bore some resemblance to her glamorous papa. Her mother Janet was steelier, both more conservative and more ambitious. Black Jack was an exuberant but careless investor; the Wall Street crash of 1929 finished his market ride. His marriage began to falter then, and it ended when Jackie was nine. Janet then married...
...master Stephen A. Mitchell jumped in todefend Donovan, saying the manager gave the houseoffice advance notice of the demolition. But healso reiterated that Donovan's planningoffice--and not the house--bore all responsibilityfor the project...
Nixon's policy of detente with the Soviet Union led to a focus on arms control and human rights, which bore full fruit in the SALT treaty and the Helsinki accords signed under President Gerald R. Ford. Nixon's skilful diplomacy prevented the occupation of the Mideast by Soviet troops...