Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Moynihan held onto his professorship by abandoning the U.N. in mid-winter, he's risking it again with his race for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat now held by James L. Buckley (R.-N.Y.). In fact, Moynihan will very likely be out one tenured chair in mid-September when the Empire State's liberal Democrats will split their primary votes among Rep. Bella S. Abzug, former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark and New York City Council president Paul O'Dwyer...
After the honeymoon, the King will resume his hectic round of ceremonial duties. He and Silvia, however, will have to find some time to inspect the more than 1,500 wedding gifts they have received (including a modern sculpture from President Ford and a rocking chair for two from Finland's President). They must also face the task of providing an heir to the throne; under the constitution, female succession is banned and, except for a 63-year-old uncle, Carl Gustaf is the last male of the royal line...
Slumped down in his high-backed swivel chair, his brown boots propped on his typewriter, Jordan, 31, looked like a young man-with his pink face and shiny black hair-speaking to a late date. As he talked, his fingers riffled through a sheaf of unanswered telephone slips, and every so often he rolled one up and tossed it across the room at a nearby wastebasket...
...drill-sergeant type named Marvin rants a bit and goes over the rules four or five times. We already know them: no chatting, smoking or notetaking; no getting out of the chair for any reason except for "the maximum" of one food break per day and widely spaced bathroom breaks. Around Manhattan, est is known as the "no-pee therapy." Bladder control is crucial. At some sessions, trainees have been known to announce "I have just wet my pants and it doesn't matter," sitting down happily, if soggily, to tumultuous applause...
...launches into an abusive harangue, the arctic blasts keep blowing, and the room grows tense. A woman breaks down. It is Wendy, yesterday's enlightenment-seeker with no problems. Hefty housewife now has her coat over her head and is bouncing in her chair. Finally she pops, moaning, screaming and shaking violently. Ron says: "How old are you now? And where are you? Don't think, just look." The woman says she is ten years old and with her parents. She screams that her mother hates her, always has, because she's jealous of her father...