Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large number of their wives are housewives, many beginning careers or returning to jobs only after the children are grown. About half of the wives work part-time or as volunteers. Given the goals of most women 25 years ago, even the one-fourth of the women who do work full time is a larger number than their husbands would have expected. Trustman says he "never met one woman here who had any interest in having a career. Harvard was just an esoteric hobby for them. They got jobs if they did not get married right away...
...residents there are fond of saying: blizzards, mosquitoes and Robert McCarney. A millionaire Ford auto dealer, McCarney, 65, is the all-time champion referendum holder in the state. He has forced so many laws to be tested at the polls that he has been referred to as "the fourth branch of state government." His current crusade is to stop North Dakota from spending some $18.5 million for new buildings. Boasts he: "Any benefit to the people of this state has come through my efforts, not the legislature...
...described as the "shattering experience" of his resignation. In coming full circle, the series-which had been sold separately to 162 U.S. television stations-lost half of its viewers, according to rating surveys in New York City and Los Angeles. Only about 21% of the TV audience watched the fourth interview, v. 42% for the first; 23% for the second; 17% the third. Among the topics in Nixon-Frost...
...Netherlands. In December 1975 another group of terrorists seized the Indonesian consulate in Amsterdam and a train on the Utrecht-Groningen rail line (TIME, Dec. 15, 1975). Before that 15-day ordeal ended with the surrender of 14 Moluccans, three train passengers had been executed and a fourth hostage fell to his death from a consulate window...
...slight, 95-lb. frame of Steve Cauthen was hunched over Bay Streak last week, moving to challenge the leaders in the fourth race at Long Island's Belmont Park. As onlookers gasped, Bay Streak snapped a foreleg, and the rider and his horse went down. Cauthen, 17, was rushed to a nearby hospital and treated for lacerations, bruises and fractures of his right arm and two fingers. A few days later, the youth was released and sent home to Kentucky to recuperate. The doctors' orders: no riding for at least six weeks, putting a temporary halt...