Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...known as Grumpy's Toy, is a rolling billboard for automotive-parts companies. In addition to his track earnings, he commands $1,500 a night, win or lose, for helping dragstrip owners fill the stands for exhibition matches. He employs a public relations consultant to help spread his fame-and perhaps counteract the effect of his personality. Though he can be amiable off the track, fans know him as a dour churl who snarls at well-wishers and even puts up barriers to keep spectators away from his pit. Readers of Hot Rod magazine, however, were able...
Members of the Economics Department, having watched two of their colleagues rise to Nobel fame in the past two years, agreed that Leontief was a deserving but hardly surprising choice...
Died. Sidney Blackmer, 78, durable character actor who impersonated Teddy Roosevelt in no fewer than ten plays and movies; of cancer; in New York. From his film debut as an extra in a 1915 Perils of Pauline episode, Blackmer went on to gain fame as a '20s and '30s matinee idol. But his best performances came after his youth began to fade: he won a Tony in 1950 for his portrayal of Doc, the alcoholic husband, in William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba, and most recently was the satanic warlock in the film Rosemary...
Spiro Agnew may not have been a household word when Presidential candidate Richard Nixon nominated the Maryland governor for the vice presidency five years ago. But Agnew's sudden exit from office this week may have won a dubious place in history for the man whose vice presidential fame and presidential aspirations were founded on his public image as a defender of law and order...
...political problems, and yet because the problems of society are inside him, succeeds anyway. Grass has had a career somewhat similar to Mailer's, finding himself famous at a fairly young age, exhausting his material by repetition in later books, turning to political involvement under the joint burden of fame and the responsibility to produce once again at his original level of quality...