Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nautical Gait. For the first time in years, Rockefeller enjoyed a summer reminiscent of childhood. He passed leisurely days at Seal Harbor with Happy and their two children, Nelson, 10, and Mark, 7. To those who know him, Rockefeller had never seemed more fit. His 185 Ibs. are evenly distributed over his 5-ft. 10-in. frame, and there is no hint of a paunch. With his rolling, nautical gait, protruding brow and drooping eyelids, he has the perpetual look of a man facing a severe northeaster-or could it be constant political gales...
...believe they are living in a rotten, corrupt sexist society that has crushed them. They are, in fact, more satisfied than men." Similarly, polls show that the majority of Americans are middle class "because they think they are middle class, and they think they are middle class because they fit the criteria that they themselves have established for such status." As "everyone knows," says Wallenberg, middle-class people own their own homes, do not let their teen-agers drop out of high school, have washers and dryers, play tennis and get divorced...
...fortunately, neither did his captives. After a long siege, Gabron surrendered to police. Psychiatrists have declared him sane and fit to stand trial, and this week he will be arraigned in a Los Angeles municipal court...
...does the Kremlin bother with what amounts to its own fantastic Watergate coverup? Aside from protecting Brezhnev, the outrageous distortions of what really happened to Nixon are obviously tailored to fit the official conspiratorial view of the U.S. system. Says one Western diplomat in Moscow: "It jibes with what are probably their basic beliefs about how America operates. It also fits the deep-rooted Slavic feeling about plots." Adds a Scandinavian official posted in the Soviet capital: "No one wants to raise the question of popular pressure bringing down a government that lies. Imagine what that could mean here...
...known simply as Marty to his Capitol Hill friends, a name that just would not fit his famous father, the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Senate Page Martin Luther King III, 16, has been spending his days running errands in the upper chamber and his evenings running the base paths as a softball player on the teams of Georgia Congressman Andrew Young and Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy. At times, it seems, the action is brisker on the mound than on the Hill. "It's been a great learning experience," says King diplomatically. "But after a while, when...