Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BORN. To Dick Smothers, 47, perennial straight man of the comic Smothers Brothers, and his wife Lorraine Martin, 28: their first child (he has three from a previous marriage); in Las Vegas, where the brothers are performing. Name: Sarah Alexandra. Weight...
...incoming warheads. The lapse would prove tragic. Despite the frigate's sophisticated gadgetry, the first word that she was under attack came in a most ancient seagoing manner: a lookout spotted the incoming "flying fish" skimming just 15 ft. above the water. Like Captain Ahab sighting Moby Dick, the sailor shouted a warning into his intercom to the bridge...
...with the whole world looking on, she wed the playboy Aly Khan, with whom she had her second daughter Yasmin. The match lasted only two years, but she remembered him fondly: "The world was magical when you were with him." There were two more marriages (to Crooner Dick Haymes and Producer James Hill), neither happy. "They fell in love with Gilda and woke up with me," was her rueful commentary...
...class solemly returned to its seats. Between cracking jokes to Charles Doorite about the hopeless slush pile awaiting most young writers, Dick Wordsworth delved into the problems of creating well-wrought margins...
...called his friend Richard Secord. In November 1985 Secord came to the rescue of frazzled White House officials by deftly diverting a plane that was scheduled for a weapons shipment to the contras to help transport arms to Iran. As North later wrote admiringly to Admiral John Poindexter, "Why Dick can do something in five minutes that the CIA cannot do in two days is beyond me -- but he does." Another time North wrote, "a man of many talents ol' Secord...