Word: done
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WEEKS AGO, Finch--riding a wave of grass roots popularity--accomplished what no predecessor in this century had ever done. Finch pushed a bill through the jealous and suspicious Mississippi Senate allowing him to serve two back-to-back four-year terms. In the past, Mississippi governors have perenially pleaded to the state's legislative bodies to pass a constitutional amendment permitting gubernatorial succession, but to no avail--despite the fact that these governors proved they had no ulterior motives by adding clauses insuring that the amendment would only affect future governors, not themselves. Suddenly, Finch is succeeding where...
...Merrill can't do it, probably no one can. Peter Martins, City Ballet's top male dancer (and new choreographer, whose first work, Calcium Light Night, just opened), has worked with Balanchine for a decade. Says Martins: "He could not have done Ballo five years ago. It is all Merrill. She executes steps at speeds that seem impossible. And she never takes a short cut. She is completely honest...
...that she will find her own equivalent-or know the reason why. Her goals are strong and they are focused. "The classics can wait. Right now the place to be is where Mr. Balanchine is. My ambition is to do every role in the repertory that I have not done...
...Columbus did not know where he was going or where he had arrived when he got there, the winds truly deserve nearly as much credit as he for the discovery of America. Ugly westerlies helped turn the 1588 Spanish Armada away from England in a limping panic. Napoleon was done in twice by weather: once by the snow and cold that forced his fearful retreat from Moscow, later by the rain that bedeviled him at Waterloo and caused Victor Hugo to write: "A few drops of water ... an unseasonable cloud crossing the sky. sufficed for the overthrow of a world...
...believe in brooding. "I'm not a morose type of person. The sharp edges of Korea have eroded," says Bucher, 50, who spent eleven months in a North Korean prison after the capture of his ship. Since his retirement from the Navy in 1973, Bucher has done a bit of writing and lecturing. His topic on the lecture circuit: "What's Right with America." He has also taken up an old hobby, painting with watercolors, and has enrolled as a full-time student at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. "I have a lot of images...