Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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GERALD STONE and his wife Beth made the long journey from the U.S. to Australia with their two daughters in 1962, refugees from the nuclear-fallout scare of that year. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Stone, 37, lived for five years in New York, where he worked for United Press International. As the senior reporter on the Australian Broadcasting Commission's top television news show, he earns $11,200 a year, which he reckons would be worth twice as much in U.S. terms...
...about to move into their new, $30,000 four-bedroom home on a gum-tree-shaded site overlooking the middle reach of Sydney harbor. "My last trip to the U.S. showed me for sure that we lead a good life here," he remarked one morning last week. "In Columbus," he said, "old friends were afraid to let their kids go downtown to a movie." At that moment his twelve-year-old daughter Klay was shopping alone in downtown Sydney. "They no longer seemed to know the answers to their problems," Stone continued. "Once, for every American problem, there...
...lovely loser, of course, was AH MacGraw, whom many figured a shoo-in for the best actress award. To be sure, there were complaints that her performance as Jenny Cavilleri in Love Story wasn't quite up to her Brenda Patimkin in 1969's Goodbye, Columbus. But-by Academy standards-didn't the film deserve a big prize for being one of Hollywood's all time runaway box-office triumphs (well over $30 million so far)? And hadn't Ali's husband, Bob Evans, earned an Oscar or two for his contributions to Paramount...
...German statesman-naturalist Alexander von Humboldt: "There are three stages in the popular attitude toward a great discovery: first, men doubt its existence; next, they deny its importance; and finally they give the credit to someone else." Author of Admiral of the Ocean Sea and other books about Columbus, Morison does all an old salt can to set the log straight about those before and after his favorite explorer...
...printing it?" He added: "What do I do on the next story? Tell the guy I'll get you on the cover of Esquire -and hanged?" Although the Galley trial was concluded without the tapes, the case against Sack is still pending in the U.S. District Court in Columbus, Ga. Sack promises to fight as long as the Government persists...