Word: carr
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Married. Christy Brown, 40, Irish novelist, poet and painter who, although almost totally paralyzed since birth by cerebral palsy, wrote a bestselling autobiographical book about family life in a Dublin slum (Down All the Days), typing the manuscript with the toes of his left foot; and Mary Carr, 27, dental receptionist; he for the first time, she for the second; in Dublin...
Focusing on a stock scandal perpetrated by Houston promoter Frank Sharp that proved to involve Gov Preston Smith Speaker of the Texas House Gus Mutscher. Houston mayor Louis Welsh former state attorney general Waggoner Carr and even NASA astronaut James A Lovell Katz cracks the golden egg of the Texas state capitol for a broad look at the kind of "business" that state officials are really doing under that dome...
This leaves us free to contemplate Raquel Welch as she skates about and gamely impersonates a certain K.C. (for Kansas City) Carr. Miss Welch, it soon becomes apparent, is not well cast. Although she attempts a measure of characterization by jawing some gum, she never succeeds at being tough enough. Whizzing around the rink, pursued and periodically clobbered by banshee competitors on every side, she looks like a drum majorette who has just lost her football team...
...Alarm. The Administration's strategy has been to try to pinch off the drug routes before they reach New York, Miami or the Mexican border, the main U.S. entry points. The effort involves long, Le Carré-style work by dozens of globe-ranging narcotics agents, as well as diplomatic pressure on 57 countries that are concerned with the trade in one way or another. But the effort has been frustrating. Many governments are not particularly receptive to U.S. pleas for cooperation and, as the Cabinet Committee report wryly observes, they are "regularly and skillfully exploited by the illicit...
WAVING a scrap of paper over his head, British Home Secretary Robert Carr rose to speak in the House of Commons. "Message from the Queen, signed by her Majesty's own hand!" he shouted. The paper, which Carr had brought by boat and plane from the royal yacht Britannia, on which Queen Elizabeth II had been cruising off the west coast of Scotland, was a declaration of a national state of emergency. It was the fourth such declaration that Britain's Tory government has had to seek since coming to power two years ago. The cause this time...