Word: elliott
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...record for the mile to 3 min. 51.1 sec. Two weeks ago in Los Angeles, he zipped through 1,500 meters-120 yds. short of a mile-in 3 min. 31.1 sec., to clip 2½ sec. off the seven-year-old mark set by Australia's Herb Elliott. Experts estimate that Ryun's time for 1,500 meters is the equivalent of a 3-min. 48.5-sec. mile...
...first two-year term as mayor of Miami Beach had been honest and productive. He had become a popular, familiar figure about town. More important, in a city where more than 40% are old enough (the median age: 59) for the welfare benefits initiated by his father, Elliott Roosevelt had a magic name...
Nonetheless, Miami Beach voters last week rejected Elliott by a vote of 10,692 to 8,455 in a nonpartisan runoff, electing in his place a political novice, Attorney Jay Dermer, 37. Roosevelt (whose losing margin roughly equaled his winning ratio in 1965) may have been a remote casualty of the Middle East war, which had a galvanic effect on Miami Beach residents, a substantial majority of whom are Jewish. While the last of F.D.R.'s sons still in public office used his father's old campaign song, Happy Days Are Here Again, Dermer alternated speeches in Yiddish...
Poet, a late and lesser play of O'Neill's, is a sort of Iceman Crumbleth set in 1828. The Irish emigrant hero is an impoverished Massachusetts tavern keeper adrift on booze and Byronism, who rages at wife, daughter (Jeanne Hepple) and creation. Actor Denholm Elliott buries the poet in a rubble of rant, and the cast mouths more different brogues than there are counties in Ireland. As for Noel Coward's brittle trio of one-acters, time has partly damaged them, and this butter-fingered troupe completes...
Born. To Cass Elliott, 23, Brūnnhilde-sized pop rocker with The Mamas and the Papas quartet, and her husband, Singer Jim Hendricks, 26, from whom she is separated: a daughter; in Los Angeles, thus making her the group's first bona fide Mama...