Word: calvin
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...only signs of continued economic .slump and inflation but also some Wall Street history. In modern times, stocks have usually climbed through the first year of a new Democratic Administration.* But the last time the Dow rose in the Inaugural year of a Republican Administration was in 1925, after Calvin Coolidge was elected...
Back from last year is a nucleus of veterans, including high scoring swingman Donald Fleming and senior co-captain Mark Harris and Tom Mannix, not to mention the backfield tandem of Calvin Dixon and Robert Taylor...
...trio of talented guards will join Fleming when he plays in the back court, most notably Mannix and sophomore Calvin Dixon. Mannix was the Crimson's second leading scorer last year, averaging over 12 points per game. He could equal that clip this year, and along with Harris will provide a stabilizing influence on the young team...
Based on the bestselling novel by Judith Guest, Redford's first directorial effort takes place in one of the wealthiest spots in the country, Lake Forest, Illinois, and the "ordinary" people are the Jarret family: Calvin, the father (Sutherland), a successful tax attorney and ineffectual nice guy; Beth, the mother (Moore), a gracious but icily repressed suburbanite; and Conrad, their son (Hutton), who spent four months in a mental hospital after slashing his wrists. Conrad's troubles unfold slowly: his older brother Buck (mother's favorite) died in a boating accident which Conrad survived. Beth "buried the best...
...inevitably behind it Ronald Reagan, the Kemp-Roth tax cut, an end to the Environmental Protection Agency, the death of the Equal Rights Amendment, a one-sided partnership between business and government. In short, the restoration of the same American dream that once made tranquil the sleep of Calvin Coolidge but haunted Herbert Hoover...