Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tears that streaked down her face were not in the script, but Mariel Hemingway's testimony at a hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives was as moving as any Hollywood drama. The granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, who owns a cabin near her home town of Ketchum, Idaho, spoke against a bill that would preserve only 526,000 of Idaho's 8 million acres of wilderness. Hemingway, 22, at first read calmly from her prepared statement, but broke down when she got to a quotation from a monument to her grandfather. As she had said earlier, "My testimony...
...weariness had earlier caused him to praise a supporter for coming "here for the New Hampshire primary," Hart's aides found that early exit polls indicated he was going to lose the state. Shortly after his chartered Boeing 720 took off from Philadelphia, an engine caught fire and the cabin filled with smoke. Hart's wife Lee ran from a rear seat through the plane because "I thought we were going down and I wanted to be with my family." The aircraft landed safely, and Hart's shaken entourage took Ozark Air Lines planes to St. Louis and California. Unaware...
...stayed a day at Kharg while the tanker was being loaded. That night, as usual, we listened to the BBC and the Voice of America in the captain's cabin. It did nothing for our nerves to hear a BBC report that our ship had supposedly been hit. Later, an Iranian official paid us a visit, accompanied by three Islamic guards in military fatigues. I was dressed in black, but the Iranians insisted that a veil of some sort be found for me. There was nothing suitable on board. Finally, the captain rushed to his bathroom and returnedwith...
...Miranda Cowley '84, $1500, for her senior thesis entitled "Out of the Mouths of Babes. Children as Spokesmen in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Huckleberry Finn, and To Kill a Mockingbird"--Sonya Michael. Teaching Assistant...
...fascinating alternative to the normal courtship routine," says Andrew Schlein, a psychology Ph.D. who signs on as "Psydoc." He compares it to the experience of strangers thrown together in the cabin of an airplane, where closeness and anonymity allow an intimacy that might never happen in other circumstances...