Word: friends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...definition, Atlantic City's Miss America Pageant leans heavily on traditional values and red, white and blue patriotism. But, in this day of the rebellious young, the Establishment has seldom had a friend so true as Pamela Anne Eldred, Miss America 1970. After convincing the judges with a ballet routine and a 34-21-34 figure, the blonde coed from Detroit held forth for the press. The Viet Nam war was right, she reasoned, because otherwise the Government would never have gotten into it. "I feel that the people who were voted into office must have the intelligence...
...ways: as a member of the New York staff, and as a relative newcomer. A former TIME-LIFE correspondent, Greenfield came to the paper in 1967 at the suggestion of his friend Rosenthal...
...friend-of-the-court brief, 17 prominent lawyers argued that "a particular respected church" (the Roman Catholic Church, which fought against liberalization of abortion laws) had no right to impose its religious views on the state. Another amicus brief was signed by 178 deans and other professors of medical schools across the U.S.* Their brief spoke of a "hard-almost brutal-reality." The statute that was "designed in 1850 to protect women from serious risks to life and health," they declared, "has in modern times become a scourge...
...time to think. So she drives slowly through a Pennsylvania autumn, picking up a hitchhiker named Kilgannon (James Caan) who turns out to be a retarded college-football player with a plate in his head. He has been promised a job by the father of an old college girl friend, but the girl's family greets him with ridicule. Another job as a handyman on a reptile farm falls through when Kilgannon becomes so frightened of losing Natalie that he starts to let the animals out of their cages. He even interrupts Natalie's assignation with a Nebraska...
...Europe presented to any would-be diplomat. The Thirty Years' War (1618-48) turned much of the Continent into a wasteland. Alliances flickered on and off like fireflies. Richelieu did his work, too, in a time of witch burning and archaism. His very closest adviser and friend, a shrewd Capuchin named Père Joseph (for whose shadowy role the title Eminence grise seems to have been invented) was entirely obsessed, for example, with a yearning to renew the crusades against the infidel...