Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legend, and she's proud of it. It became a David-and-Goliath myth which her fans loved and continually embellished, the most ardent even supposing that she refused contracts solely out of righteous indignation for not having been appreciated earlier. Recently she's become pretty candid about what was actually in those contracts: insultingly poor roles, old productions, or performance dates that Bing knew conflicted with her commitments to sing elsewhere--in one instance, her debut at Covent Garden...
...North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops made venturing outside Saigon a dangerous proposition. Yet as days went by, the suffering, disintegration and chaos in outlying areas became at least as important a subject for coverage as anything happening in the capital. "It's getting easier to get a candid view from high-ranking military officers now," said New York Times Correspondent Malcolm W. Browne. "But there is a fatalistic belief that nothing they say or do matters any more." Still, added Associated Press Bureau Chief George Esper, "you have to be present in the field to know...
Catching the TV creature off-camera was no easy task. In Los Angeles, Correspondent Leo Janos got hold of Cher on a rare day off and spent 10½ hours with the slinky singer at her Holmby Hills mansion. Jess Cook drew some candid comments from Sonny Bono while David DeVoss interviewed Bono's successors, David Geffen and Current Beau Greg Allman. Patricia Delaney filled out Cher's life story by speaking with her mother, Georgia Holt...
...profoundly disturbing. With Wilson's approval, they moved in effect to suppress the 350,000-word document by asserting their traditional right to a line-by-line scrutiny of Cabinet members' memoirs for breach of confidence. They found plenty, and it appeared that Grossman's candid insights might never see print...
...Julian Huxley, 87, British biologist, older brother of the late novelist Aldous Huxley and grandson of Victorian Scientist-Sage Thomas Huxley; in London. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Sir Julian was an atheist and self-styled "humanist" and an astonishingly prolific writer; his 48 major books range from candid autobiography (Memories) to probing studies of evolution. As UNESCO's first director-general (1946-48), he gained widespread attention as a doomsday prophet, warning against such dangers as the population explosion and man's neglect of his environment...