Word: companionably
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...author accounts for his mission: "Offhand, with hindsight, I can think of many factors bubbling about in my brain, but I ought to admit right away that its origin was totally haphazard, touch and go, a flip of a coin. It all got out of hand with a companion calling my bluff (I said I could do it, this companion said I could...
MARRIAGE REVEALED. JOHN PAUL GETTY JR., 62, billionaire and philanthropist; to his companion of 20 years, VICTORIA HOLDSWORTH, 44, former TV model; in December; in Barbados. Both have been married twice before. APPOINTED. THE REV. LLOYD JOHN OGILVIE, 64, Presbyterian minister, to the post of Chaplain of the U.S. Senate. Currently senior pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, California, Ogilvie is also host of a daily radio show and a weekly TV program, Let God Love You. His new job will pay $115,700 a year in taxpayer dollars...
MARRIAGE REVEALED. Of J. PAUL GETTY JR., 62, billionaire philanthropist, and VICTORIA HOLDSWORTH, 44, a former model and his companion of 20 years; both for the third time; on Dec. 29; in Barbados. RESTORED. MOSHOESHOE II, 56, exiled King of Lesotho, banished by the country's ruling military council in 1990; to the throne; in the capital, Maseru. More than 10,000 subjects watched as Moshoeshoe's son King Letsie III, who had been installed after Moshoeshoe's dethronement, formally abdicated and handed back the crown to his father. DISMISSED. FAUSTO ALZATI, 41, Mexico's Minister of Education; by President...
Other rebel demands--like the re- negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement and a halt to the privatization of state industries--have less chance of success. ``There have to be great changes in this country,'' says Tacho's companion, Major Moises, an M-16 automatic rifle balanced on his lap. ``And if there's not, there's going to be war and revolution...
...federal funding for the Public Broadcasting Service, they came not to praise high-toned PBS shows like Masterpiece Theatre and Live From Lincoln Center. Instead speaker after speaker trooped up to the microphone to tell stories of poor viewers in rural areas for whom PBS is a treasured companion; of fire fighters and police officers who take classes via local public-TV outlets; of children whose lives would be made joyless if such familiar PBS friends as Big Bird, Barney and Mister Rogers were taken away. Without federal funds, said Randall Feldman, president of WYES in New Orleans, his station...