Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serve and to save." Nonetheless, F.D.R. and Lucy were to be "attached by ties of deep and unbroken affection to the day he died." By all accounts, F.D.R. thereafter kept in frequent contact with Lucy. For example, says Daniels, he "quietly arranged for special tickets and a special car for Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd at his Inauguration" in 1933. He also visited the Rutherfurds' stately winter home in Aiken, S.C., several times, and the Rutherfurds called at the White House. Daniels says that Lucy visited the Little White House at Warm Springs, Ga., on several occasions. In fact, though...
...unyielding disciplinarian who demanded much of his sons and admitted last week that he was accustomed to beating his wife. In March, Margaret Whitman walked out on him, summoning Charlie from Austin to help her make the break. While his mother was packing her belongings, a Lake Worth police car sat outside the house, called by Charlie presumably because he feared that his father would resort to violence. To be near Charlie, Mrs. Whitman moved to Austin. The youngest son, John, 17, left home last spring. When he was arrested for pitching a rock through a storefront glass, the judge...
...lived-with his lovely young Chinese girl friend-in an elegant downtown villa. He showed up to slap backs and shake hands at every important social occasion, and his own glittering cocktail parties were the talk of Saigon-as was his official car, the only Government vehicle in Viet Nam with white sidewall tires. Always ready to help out with a favor, he made lots of friends-and some jealous enemies as well-for rare was the day that his picture or his name did not appear in the city's newspapers. And whenever Viet Cong terrorists bombed...
...they waited for hitchhikes aboard military planes passing through the base. Mail deliveries that normally move by air were slowed; shipments of everything from electronic equipment to exotic flowers were delayed for lack of air cargo space. Businessmen hitched rides on one another's corporate aircraft, demand for car rentals soared, and so did telephone bills, as executives settled for conference calls instead of face-to-face confrontations. Air taxis and charter services in some cases were doing triple their normal business...
...Columbia, finds its anti-hero in black Brooklyn, but race is not his reason for being on the outside looking in. Mack Davis is a onetime All-America basketball star who got caught fixing games for the gamblers. Kicked off the court, Mack takes a job in a car wash ("I got the cleanest hands of any fixer around") and wears his cool like a man who couldn't care less. But he's crying on the inside, warming a cold old hope of playing with the pros. What happens to his hope is fast, funny, touching...