Word: companion
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...calling attention to our heritage and by helping to train a cadre of experts, HABS, along with a companion project called the Historic American Engineering Record, begun in 1969, has been instrumental in changing preservation from the concern of the proverbial little old ladies in tennis shoes to a powerful citizens movement. This movement recognizes that there are no more frontiers in America and that people can no longer "Go west" to escape our chaotic urban environment. Rather, we must bring some order, stability and livability to the urban sprawl. We need urban conservation as much as we need...
Such cosmic violence, the scientists postulated, probably results from the stormy relationship between two companion stars that orbit each other. In this scheme, one member is an ordinary star like the sun. The other is a so-called neutron star; this is essentially a dead star that has run out of nuclear fuel. As its fires die out and the star's gases cool, they explode, with the remnants collapsing upon themselves, and the star shrinks to incredible density. Typically, such a star once had a girth of 100 million miles or more, but now is only...
...Mailer's agent, who down-played reports that, in addition to New York, Random House threw in a tidy $4 million for the author's next four novels. Meanwhile, Doubleday also had something to bark about. Its newest author is one C. Fred Bush, 11, four-legged companion of George and Barbara Bush. Due in April, C. Fred's Story: A Dog's Life, "edited slightly" by his mistress, will provide (for $11.95) a shin-rubbing view of the vice presidential household. C. Fred will donate all proceeds to charity...
...once said something which put everything into perspective for me from that moment on: "You go to the grave alone." A cliche, certainly. But said in the right way, at the right time, and by the right person, this meat-and-potatoes statement has since served as my best companion during times when I've been obsessed with the opinions of others or afraid to take a chance at something for fear of failure. This most useful insight of my life, which was also the most obvious, came from a 20-year-old girl who rarely read, whose chain-smoking...
...revival of Noël Coward's comedy Private Lives. Mercifully, it seems that Richard Burton, 57, and Elizabeth Taylor, 51, may never replay their headline-grabbing love affair again. For last week, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas (what could be more romantic?), Burton wed his companion of the past 18 months, Sally Hay, 35. It was Burton's fifth reading of the wedding vows. (Past partners: Sybil Williams, Taylor, Taylor again, and Susan Hunt.) After learning of the marriage, Taylor, whose current consort is Mexican Lawyer Victor Luna, pursed her lips into a smile...