Word: elder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MADE me. You don't like it? Well, what you SEE is what you GET. OOO-WAAH-O!" The sly black face next appears supported by a clerical collar. Now it is the Rev. Leroy of the Church of What's Happening Now. "Reverend!" cries an elder. "There's a blue El Dorado illegally parked outside." The good pastor favors the elder with a seraphic grin. "The Lord smiled down on me in last week's raffle...
...speech was as appropriate as the setting. It was the first of K-State's Alfred M. Landon Lectures this year, a gracious presidential gesture to the 83-year-old Kansan who survived his humiliation in 1936 at the hands of Franklin Roosevelt to become a minor elder statesman of the Republican Party. K-State, as political instinct and the Secret Service informed Nixon, was a comparatively safe campus on which he could propound his ideas on radical violence; Nixon won the 1968 mock election there...
...there was scant improvement. His idea of a fun evening was to disguise himself as a taxi driver, pick up customers in Amman and ask them what they thought of their new monarch. Hussein preferred blondes, but in 1955 he married a Hashemite cousin named Dina, several years his elder. She bore him only a daughter, and after two years Hussein quietly divorced her. He soon married a brunette British secretary named Toni Gardiner, whose father was an army officer stationed in Jordan; a convert to Islam, she is known as the Princess Muna, Arabic for "heart's desire...
...never quite sure whether I am one of the cinema's elder statesmen or just the oldest whore on the beat," said Joseph L. Mankiewicz last week, contemplating his 41 years in Hollywood. Mankiewicz, who won Academy Awards for both screenplay and directing in two pictures-Letter to Three Wives (1949), and All About Eve (1950)-ruefully admitted that big-budget movies, à la his Cleopatra, which cost $40 million, are now out. "What they would like my next four films to be," he said, "are Easy Cowboy, Midnight Rider, Cowboy Rider and Easy Midnight." Mankiewicz has apparently...
...loss of a child's affection because they cannot in all conscience condone liberalized drug laws or immediate withdrawal from Viet Nam. You seem to assume that unless a person espouses the ideals of youth, he does not have an open mind. My praise is for the embattled elder whose life-tested convictions require him to oppose the views of his children. STEPHEN SCHOENBECK (age 23) APO San Francisco...