Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suddenly Gerald Ford ran into his toughest week of the presidential campaign?and perhaps of his entire political career. For a month Ford has been closing fast on Jimmy Carter. But now the President was struck by a series of setbacks that were remarkable even in this mercurial year, marked by flip-flops at the podiums and in the polls. Amid the flood of blunders and bad news, there were also reports that revived questions about the President's probity in the past. Some of the charges were both old and minor, but even his supporters feared that unless Ford...
California is a state of opportunity. Need an elephant? A Los Angeles firm can rent you one. Want to found your own church? No problem-a religious sect in Modesto advertises charters at $2 a month. From fast food to faster skateboards, whatever Californians want, there is usually an enterpriser around to sell it. The trendiest item now on the market: legal education...
When Greek Shipping Heiress Christina Onassis married Banking Heir Alexander Andreadis 14 months ago, everyone was surprised at the couple's one-month courtship. The lightning-fast merger has now fallen apart, and last week relatives of both Christina, 25, and Alexander, 31, revealed that the pair had agreed to a divorce. Not all Christina watchers were surprised. After a motorcycle spill had hospitalized Andreadis with a broken leg last August, his wife came by to autograph the cast. Her inscription: "Bon voyage, Alexandras, better luck next time...
This conclusion, inconclusive and yet fast on the heels of the ultimate skirmish of psychological cruelty, leaves us with half a film, for one presumes that after throwing her hands up at suicide Mrs. Elliot will have to come to terms. The portrait of her, ending here, strikes one as perverse and, although meant to arouse sympathy, pretty unsympathetic. The children, at least, might provide Roberts with a vocation and some joy--even Finney has grown to appreciate them, and remarks perfectly "I'm happier with them because I'm happier without them." Yet she declares herself ready to drag...
Most of his fast-paced little novel is set not in (or near) the centers of world power but in the underdeveloped and overpopulated Caribbean country of Santo Domingo. There Clay Loomis, a disaffected CIA agent turned soldier of fortune, serves as chief of security to the current dictator. His main job: trying to quell a guerrilla movement led by one RamÓn el Rojo. It is a loosing battle; before long RamÓn starts a Castro-type revolution that spreads through Santo Domingo like Asiatic...