Word: companions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most Americans, the fifth Lord Harlech is the sometime walking, traveling and concertgoing companion of Jacqueline Kennedy and the man widely rumored to be her transatlantic suitor. Many also remember him as Britain's highly successful Ambassador to Washington under John Kennedy. In Britain, however, Harlech is increasingly drawing attention as a man of versatile talents who is making his mark on British life and business. Harlech is already Britain's national film censor and rates as a potentially influential Tory politician. Recently, he took on a multimillion-dollar private venture as the chief executive...
...Fortas indicated, the court did not say what the standards should be. But it did note that New York's standards, whether acceptable or not, were at least precisely stated. That was not so in the companion case of a Dallas ordinance that sought to bar juveniles under 16 from movies found unsuitable by a local board of censors. Speaking for an 8-to-1 majority, Justice Thurgood Marshall found that the standards to be applied under the ordinance were unconstitutionally vague. Dallas and other communities may now pattern their laws after the New York statute upheld in Ginsberg...
...called the "unit of persuasion," the family and the individual. People are rarely motivated to make important personal choices by abstract arguments. "A teeming population" and the possibility of toxic air and spoiled natural resources are less real than the mother's desire to remain a healthy and happy companion to her children, the closing of a nearby playground to erect an apartment building, or the prohibitive costs of higher education. In a recent poll published in Eugenics Quarterly, only two per cent of women practicing family limitation did so for "general social reasons." The pain of an unwanted child...
Married. Vittorio De Sica, 65, cinema's high priest of neorealism (The Bicycle Thief; Two Women); and Maria Mercader, 51, Spanish-born actress, his constant companion for 20 years; in Fains, France. To evade his country's no-divorce laws, the Italian director became a French citizen in 1966, was later granted a divorce from his first wife, Giuditta Rissone...
...fields themselves are neatly terraced. Terraces are an excellent protection against erosion of the soil, my Israeli companion explains. On the whole, the Israelis do not have this kind of terraces because they are inaccessible to their tractors...