Word: forwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee and some of his colleagues speak of the Democrats "rattling the dusty old skeletons of Watergate," has anyone reminded them that some of the culprits are still looking forward to serving their jail terms...
...Scala of Milan will start things off in Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center Opera House. Next evening the Paris Opera will open at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Putting its best forte forward, La Scala will offer-what else?-three Italians named Rossini, Puccini and Verdi. Showing somewhat less of a nationalistic strain, Paris will borrow Verdi for a while, and also offer Mozart the Austrian and, just to avoid outrage back home, France's own Charles Gounod...
After Keating stepped forward, the British Antique Dealers Association, somewhat shaken, appointed a special investigating committee. Keating, with no charges lodged against him, took off for Europe, where he plans to work on his memoirs with Geraldine Norman's husband...
Thus far, no fond literary genius has come forward to do for romance and tennis what the late P.G. Wodehouse did for love and golf in stories like The Heart of a Goof and The Clicking of Cuthbert. Nor has any opera or fairy tale yet taken up the game. Still, whenever a starry-eyed young thing with a shaky backhand contemplates courtship and marriage through mixed doubles, some dreadful figure should come out of the woodwork, wave a gnarled ringer and howl: "Beware, my pretty! Tennis may prove no bond but a curse." The best warning that exists...
High Hopes. A peaceful and moderate settlement would be good for the economy. Automakers are looking forward to a banner year in 1977 with GM Chairman Thomas Aquinas Murphy last week predicting that car and truck sales will surpass the record 14.6 million of 1973. One reason: GM is unveiling a line of cars that will average 18.3 miles per gallon, or 10% more than the '76 models. As expected, GM also announced price increases, averaging about 6%, that will push the price tag for a typical car to about $6,000 (the average 1967 GM auto cost...