Word: glamour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What he did was stun the track world with a new record for the mile, still the sport's glamour event. Coe, 22, a Sheffield engineer's son, who was relatively unknown and had run the mile only twice before, had not only whipped a field of a dozen top competitors but did it in a time of 3:49-.4 of a second faster than the mark set by New Zealand's John Walker in 1975. Moreover, just twelve days before, on the same track, Coe had taken the 800-meter race in 1:42.3, lopping...
...glamour of piloting attracts many of the students, who receive flight instruction (at a minimum of $32 per hour) in the school's fleet of 63 general aircraft. But many, 300 this year, also earn their A & P after completing the five-trimester program in airframes and power plants...
Brown countered the attacks by escorting his diamond-studded Miss America wife into the hill country and substituting television blitzes and phone banks for local organizations. He spent more than $1 million of his own money on the campaign. Glamour and greenbacks proved a winning combination, giving Brown 29% of the vote; Runner-Up Sloan received 24%. But former Governor Louie Nunn, the Republican nominee, is a street-fighter who will give Brown a tough race. His first salvo was to call his opponent "a snake-oil salesman...
...Continental techniques to such entremets as Winner Soups, A Riviera Cookout and Favorites from the French Bakery. She has taken two groups of culinary acolytes on a week-long working pilgrimage to Paris. Last October Jacques Pépin, Charles de Gaulle's onetime chef, author of La Technique and glamour boy of the culinary circuit, came to La Belle Pomme to give an S.R.O. three-day course...
...epoch of extermination" and awarded a Medal of Righteousness to Protestant Clergyman André Trocmé, who inspired the village in its resistance to evil. The story of Le Chambon is heartening; its neglect is not. It may be, as Author Philip Hallie puts it, that altruism "lacked the glamour, the wingspread of other wartime events." Yet the tale (which is many tales) is rich in potential suspense and drama, and not only of the theatrical sort; it is an exceptional instance of moral force prevailing over brutish military and political powers...