Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority whip, Louisiana's Russell Long, who then was drinking heavily and neglecting his duties. Soon Byrd was doing Long's errands and collecting lous. After Ted Kennedy upset Long for the whip's seat, in 1969, Byrd performed the same tasks for the Massachusetts Senator, who had little enthusiasm for the housekeeping chores that the job requires. But in 1971, secure in his nest of hard-earned favors, Byrd turned around and knocked off the shocked Kennedy for the whip...
From its unlikely beginning at what became known as the Haystack Prayer Meeting, the U.S. Protestant missionary movement has depended on collegiate enthusiasm, and that enthusiasm is increasing at a remarkable rate. Last week, as the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship held its eleventh triennial Missionary Convention, a record 16,000 vacationing collegians flocked to the frozen University of Illinois campus to investigate foreign mission careers. Inter-Varsity, an Evangelical group that began in England and now has chapters on 600 U.S. campuses, had to turn away thousands of others because the university's domed Assembly Hall could hold...
...listen to whale songs in a greenhouse turned-schoolroom; Marguerite, the farmer, joins with the tantrist secretary Madeleine in putting out a newsletter detailing the chemical additives in commercially-grown vegetables. Even Max, the diehard cynic, finally joins the others in their vegetable farm retreat with warm enthusiasm and comraderie...
Retailers have been eying Kong's potential with .prehensile enthusiasm. It will soon be possible to drink King Kong cocktails made from grenadine, orange juice-and bourbon-from an ape-shaped Jim Beam bottle. For kids there will be stuffed monkeys in three sizes, board games, knee socks, T shirts, lunch boxes, chewing gum and a King Kong candy bar. Though most of this stuff will go on sale too late for Christmas, shopkeepers seem to be taking the news philosophically. After all, with Producer Dino de Laurentiis already at work on King Kong, Part II, the monkey business...
...weak link in City Basketball for the past few years has been Columbia. Ever since Jim McMillian graduated to find his place in life as the quintessential team player on the Knicks and Heyward Dotson accepted a Rhodes Scholarship, Columbia fans have shown about as much enthusiasm as a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar from his salad...