Word: companion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Summer's Night went on to offer some puckish notions as to how an American aristocracy might be titled. First minister in the court of King Richard would be Spiro, Duke of Maryland; then would come such lesser dignitaries as Knight of the Garter Henry Kissinger and Companion of Honor Bebe Rebozo. In the Midwest, it would be Earl Humphrey of Minnesota. And in the Southwest, the vast estates of Earl Pedernales and Lady Pedernales-"Not," Edelman cautioned, "Lady Lady Bird...
Died. Waldo Peirce, 85. American impressionist painter, a bewhiskered giant of a man noted as much for his exuberant life-style as for his bold, spontaneous art; of pneumonia; in Newburyport, Mass. Peirce lived with all the verve and gusto of his lifelong friend and traveling companion Ernest Hemingway, even to the point of taking four wives and running with the bulls at Pamplona. His splashy, sensuously colored paintings, said one critic, "smell of sweat and sound like laughter...
...crippled by heavy deposit withdrawals. Provided Congress agrees-a big if-the subsidy plan could mean a $4.5 billion increase in S and L mortgage lending over several years, because each $1 of subsidy would generate as much as $10 or $15 in loans to home buyers. In a companion move to stanch the deposit drain, the Government raised the minimum denomination of Treasury bills from $1,000 to $10,000. Depositors have been shifting their savings from S and Ls and banks into the higher-yielding Treasury securities...
With a line-up that beasts no strong performers. Yale has yet to win a match in the Ivies. It stands alone in last place, and could have no greater pleasure than getting the Crimson as a companion...
...nice girl like you get into this business?" reads the caption under one of the eight photos that make up Barbara Benton's "uncoverage" in the March issue of Playboy. It could be the company she keeps. Barbi, a beguiling brunette, is the constant companion and consort-designate of Maximum Playboy Hugh Hefner ("The first time I've ever been in love"). When Playboy's publisher first met his Barbi doll, she was a student at U.C.L.A. and had "no interest whatsoever in any kind of a nude feature. When she became interested in a film career...