Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miller also had a strong supporter in Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, an acquaintance from days when Blumenthal was running Bendix Corp. An interview with Carter, who had met him briefly four times before, clinched the job for Miller. It seems fitting that two self-confident businessmen from rural backgrounds...
The women's final between Chris Evert, 23, and Czech Defector Martina Navratilova, 21, offered drama of a different sort. Evert was coming back from her first tennis vacation since her debut as a 16-year-old at Forest Hills in 1971. She won the first of her two...
The real Battle of Monmouth ended inconclusively, with the British withdrawing, then slipping away from the colonials and marching to New York. Still, the battle, in which some 200 British and 100 colonial soldiers died, was an important psychological victory for Washington's troops. The young American Army had...
Revolutionary War buffs came to New Jersey from as far away as California, Florida and Ontario to replay the battle. They included a seventh-generation descendant of Molly Pitcher-Elizabeth Hays, 17, of Carlisle, Pa.-who carried water to parched Continental cannoneers, as her ancestor had done 200 years earlier...
Each new current in jazz has, of course, always faced opposition. The '30s swing music swung at the '40s bop; bop booed the experimental movements of the '50s and '60s. But many jazzmen feel that fusion is not true jazz-and they are right.