Word: flings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three years ago, she had a fling with a former Cardiff nightclub manager named Raymond Lovegrove ("She always insisted on going home to her boy friend every night," said Lovegrove, and now his wife Linda is threatening to sue him for divorce, naming Helen as corespondent). Reluctant to hurt her 18-month-old son Richard (the child of former boy friend Boutique Owner Christopher Clode) by more publicity, Helen abdicated. It was back to virgins for Mecca. The new Miss World, Runner-Up Anneline Kriel, 19, of South Africa, whose boy friend is a theological student, says: "I will ward...
...house: two sisters, Nellie and Margo, plus their brother's daughter Rita, 17, who came into their care after her mother died. Unmarried Nellie's indignation colors their lives. Having sacrificed her own youth to the care of her mother, she holds Marge's brief, unsuccessful fling at marriage in daily contempt. Nellie sews dresses at home. Margo works in a munitions factory and drinks-when she can afford to-because she is fiftyish, fat and frustrated. The time is 1944 and the city is full of American soldiers: "Overpaid," as Rita's father (and everybody...
...Sasakawa established the fascist Nationalist Masses Party and was elected to the lower house of the Diet during World War II, a political fling that landed him in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison for three years while U.S. officials tried unsuccessfully to prosecute him as a war criminal. Protesting his innocence, Sasakawa hired a big brass band to blast martial songs as he strode proudly into the clink. Behind bars, he became fast friends with Kishi and other imprisoned Japanese officials who later returned to power. He also got the idea of how to increase his fortune when an American...
...generalities, the tone and thrust of the President's talk proved that despite his politically successful fling with the easy-money, deficit-spending ways of Keynesian economics, he has returned with some relief to that "oldtime religion," with its emphasis on gradualism, balanced budgets and monetary restraint. Yet the message is not likely to dispel the public's thickening gloom about the economy...
...from scruffy jeans to $200 velveteen jackets. The girls may come in couples to ogle, say, a topless Mark Farner of Grand Funk. Then there are the brassy groupies with their stevedore vocabularies who haughtily flaunt their backstage passes. The boys come in gangs and do what gangs do -fling lighted matches, fight the bouncers, sometimes toss empty wine bottles. Vomiting from too much beer or wine is a status symbol. If these kids do not have tickets, they break in. A heavy security force, sometimes including local police, is de rigueur at most rock concerts...