Word: fatedness
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Struggling to offset the damaging impact of the Watergate grand jury indictments, which charged that a criminal cover-up conspiracy had permeated the White House, President Nixon last week took the rare step of holding his second press conference within eight days. Though he was grim and nervous, he came...
The wide-bodied jetliner had arrived lightly loaded at Paris' Orly Airport from Istanbul, en route to London. When it departed, Flight 905 was nearly full, largely because of a British Airways strike, which caused 216 additional passengers to be put on the ill-fated craft. When the plane...
In the Tent. The remaining loose ends of the Gatsby package wrapped up smoothly: Karen Black and Scott Wilson as the ill-fated Myrtle and George Wilson; Bruce Dern as Daisy's husband Tom Buchanan; Sam Waterston as the narrator, Nick Carraway; Lois Chiles as Jordan Baker; and finally...
One key to the change lies in France's exquisite fabrics-luxuriant silk, crepe de chine, shantung, georgette, satin. These are meticulously cut and joined, often on the diagonal introduced in the 1920s by Madeleine Vionnet -who is inactive but still alert at 97. The "bias cut" makes clothes...
Died. Josef Smrkovsky, 62, liberal chairman of the Czechoslovak National Assembly during the ill-fated "Prague spring" of 1968; of cancer; in Prague. Smrkovsky entered government service following World War II. He was imprisoned from 1951 to 1955 on charges of "activities against the state," but was exonerated in 1963...