Word: caped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beloved Sudah, an Egyptian-Israeli artist cum hippie cum pacifist, spend days assembling highly unorthodox outfits for their Orthodox wedding. Mara's veil is an old tea-stained lace tablecloth that gets caught on her steel-rimmed glasses; Sudah is resplendent in a black velvet suit, cape and top hat. First Novelist Tova Reich's glancing Swiftian wit never flags. She introduces one Rabbi Leon Lieb, who owns a chain of nursing homes and uses cajolery, threats and his-and-her fox cloaks as he obsessively tries to transform his son-in-law into a proper husband...
...even as President, manage to stem. Not until the campaign for the 1960 presidential election was under way did White begin work on the series of books that was to bring him his greatest renown. The morning after Election Day, White waited in suspense at the Hyannis Armory on Cape Cod to see whether Illinois would give John F. Kennedy or Richard M. Nixon the title role in The Making of the President...
...President-designate appeared shortly thereafter in the Hyannis Armory in Republican Barnstable County, Cape Cod. Barnstable Township had voted its Protestant prejudice the previous day, preferring Nixon over Kennedy by 4,515 to 2,783. Kennedy strode up on the platform, puffy-eyed, but still handsome. He had insisted that his father now appear with him in public, and also his pregnant wife...
Gene Ferris, an office manager of the Massachusetts Lottery in Boston, reports: "This year our vacation on Cape Cod will be two weeks instead of three or four, and we're bringing in another couple to hold down the rental." Marliss Levin, a suburban Chicago housewife, has taken classes in home plumbing and wiring, and has started to do her own auto repairs. Mary Sinclair, wife of a Detroit auto worker, has taken a part-time job as a housekeeper; her mother makes most of the clothes for the couple's two children, and Mary takes the kids...
After eleven years as a missile engineer on the Minuteman test program at Cape Kennedy, Carl Eichhorn was ordered by his employer TRW to go to California to work on a new project. "It was go or else," he recalls. He refused...