Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that wealth is "a gift of God to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind." After graduating from Princeton in 1929, he dutifully went to work at his father's office. "My father had the idea that his sons would follow the same pattern he had," he once explained. The son eventually became a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and of Rockefeller Center, the family's huge real estate complex in Manhattan. He also oversaw the family's $50 million restoration of colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. At one time...
...tough act to follow, but Singer Georgia Holt is ready to face the music. Holt, nee Jackie Jean Crouch 51 years ago in Kensett, Ark., happens to be the mother of another warbler: Cher. When Mom took the mike at a West Hollywood nightspot, Studio One, last week, Cher and her sister, Actress Georganne LaPiere, were in the audience cheering wildly. For Holt, the stint was actually a refrain. As a youngster, she used to hit the notes on the radio and in saloons across the West. This time around, Holt has hopes of cutting an album and making...
Bobby, frozen in his follow-up, watched the scene get madder and madder, with believing awe. His teammates swarmed him, they banged him and they laughed insanely: Fisk, Burleson, Scott, Yastrzemski, Rice...Lee and Zimmer hugged each other in ecstasy, 14-year-old girls kissing Bobby wetly, yelping fans tried to do everything but get inside of his skin...
...banks, audits their books, writes the rules under which they operate. It can approve or disapprove mergers between banks, or tell a bank whether it can open a new branch in London. The Federal Reserve enforces ten laws enacted to protect borrowers, and wrote the rules that banks must follow to make sure that women can get loans as easily...
...Iron Maiden for her stamina and physical power. Her first serve is the strongest women's tennis has seen since the heyday of Margaret Court. Even as a teenager, she could pin opponents to the stadium wall with deep, booming serves. She charged to the net for follow-up volleys as aggressively as Billie Jean King at her fearless peak. With adequate (if occasionally unsteady) groundstrokes, her only on-court enemy was herself: she rattled easily, making unforced errors, while her concentration wandered. Still she climbed into the top ten on the strength of undisciplined talent...