Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dedicated folk fans frequent the Listening Room often; some claim it is the place to catch the up-and-coming stars. Rumour has it that Bob Dylan got his start at Passim. "Yup", says Donlin. "Passim has been here for only ten years, but eighteen years ago, when the club was called 47, Bob Dylan used to come...
Himelman's fairybook round allowed the linksters a measure of grace before facing Yale and Princeton tomorrow in the Big Three match on Yale's demanding home eighteen. The team will be without the services of Glenn Alexander, who has one of the most picturesque swings of any collegian in New England. Alexander, who is sidelined with an infected toe, was medalist in the Big Three Match last year, when the linksters won it on their home course, The Country Club in Brookline...
...Eighteen months ago the F.W.A. set out to select those members with appropriate work experience to be considered for directorships. The purpose of the breakfast was to acquaint the corporate chiefs with some of them. Says Marilyn Brown, 41, also a candidate and president of her own consulting firm: "Our approach is to make ourselves available." The "available" group also included Lynn Salvage, 32, president of the First Women's Bank of New York; Julia M. Walsh, 55, chairman of Julia Walsh & Sons, a Washington brokerage firm; Suzanne Jane, 35, a partner at Century Capital Associates, an investment advisory...
...Eighteen years and one angst-guzzler later (Something Happened), Heller re-styles old reliable. Daneeka's catch-22 is now Potomac newspeak and the Doc himself is reincarnated as Ralph Newsome, a presidential aide who attempts to lure Bruce Gold, Ph.D., into Government service. Gold, a college professor, has caught the President's eye by favorably reviewing the Chief Executive's book, My Year in the White House, You can do and say anything you want, says Newsome, "as long as it's everything we tell you to say and do in support of our policies...
With the sanitation workers refusing to pick up garbage, firemen manning the police picket lines in sympathy, and federal mediators stymied, many local citizens had had enough. Eighteen of the oldest and grandest krewes canceled their parades, the first time since the Korean War and only the ninth time in Mardi Gras's 122-year history. "We are not going to let Mardi Gras be held hostage by the Teamsters," read a statement issued by the krewes. "It means a half million dollars and a whole year's work down the drain, plus all the fun we miss...