Word: carsons
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Splitsville continues to be the country's fastest growing community. Johnny Carson's Joanne received her divorce (plus $100,000 a year, an art collection and other property) when she tearfully told the judge how Johnny-after nine years, no children-was "abusive" and changed the locks on their Manhattan apartment. Peter Fonda's Susan filed suit for divorce after nearly eleven years and two children, claiming "irreconcilable differences" and her half of more than $2,000,000 worth of joint property. Andy Griffith's Barbara also filed for divorce (23 years, two children), while California...
When DDT first appeared in the U.S. in 1942, it seemed almost like a miracle drug. Cheap and efficient, it destroyed pests, reduced such insect-borne diseases as malaria, and brought bumper harvests. But over the years scientists found disturbing evidence, first publicized in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, that DDT was harmful to animals too, and might threaten man as well...
...vaulting records. Still, nothing that he had ever done before came close to equaling his record-breaking leap in El Paso. He gives at least partial credit for that effort to a new pole he used that day, which was developed by Herbert Jenks, a fiber-glass expert from Carson City, Nev. Seagren's pole weighs only 6 Ibs. instead of the standard 61 Ibs. and has a thinner than usual cross section, which allows for a better grip. That enabled Seagren to hold the pole higher and sprint faster on his takeoff. With the combination...
...Francisco's Grace Cathedral, Stated Clerk Eugene Carson Blake of the United Presbyterian Church made a historic proposal: that four mainstream Protestant churches should seek to merge into a single organic entity. Out of Blake's proposal came a broader, continuing series of interdenominational meetings called the Consultation on Church Union, which was fervently supported by Protestant ecumenical leaders for more than a decade. Now COCU is in serious trouble -and at the hands of none other than Blake's United Presbyterian Church. At the church's General Assembly in Denver, delegates voted...
...West was not only a place but a state of imagination, which could invest almost any tract of virgin country between the Appalachians and the Rockies with a kind of epic innocence: nature unspoiled, inhabited by prelapsarian man. One itinerant painter, Worthington Wittredge, met the legendary scout Kit Carson in Santa Fe in 1866. "Nature had made a deep impression on this man's mind," Wittredge observed, "and I could not but think of him standing alone on top of a great mountain far away from all human contact, worshiping in his way a grand effect of nature until...