Word: friends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Secrecy, deception and pressure politics trip Carter's friend...
With that touch of bravado, Andrew Young last week announced that he had resigned as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Jimmy Carter, expressing "deep regret" in a handwritten letter, accepted the resignation of his close friend, fellow Southerner and one of his earliest and staunchest black political backers...
Groll got an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army. He has not sought money for his strange revelations. He was always a rootless man, according to Toledo Lawyer Sheldon Slaybod, a friend who knew him before the conversion. The years in the wilds have not changed him much, says Slaybod, "although he's a lot more at peace with himself...
DIED. Vivian Vance, 66, actress-comedian known to millions of TV viewers as Ethel Mertz, Lucille Ball's best friend and neighbor, on the long running and even longer rerunning show I Love Lucy; of cancer; in Belvedere, Calif. A star in Broadway musicals, the Kansas-born blond was in semiretirement when recruited by Ball and Desi Arnaz to play Ethel-the role she played from 1951 to 1956. "After a while," she said, "you're not sure who you are-Ethel Mertz or Vivian Vance." When cast as Lucy's sidekick on the 1960s The Lucy...
...acclaim than he might have received had he stuck to one. Bowles, 68, has been a distinguished composer; in 1947 Musician Virgil Thomson called him "America's most original and skillful composer of chamber music." He has written music for the stage, particularly for the plays of his friend Tennessee Williams. He has also been a tireless collector of folklore and legends, especially from Morocco, where he has lived on and off since the early 1930s. There he and his wife, the late novelist Jane Bowles, presided over a lively colony of literary émigrés and pilgrims...