Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year-old Wall Street lawyer who is still Paul's chief financial adviser. "Stoddard Stevens took away a good deal of the poetry from my husband's life," Bunny says. "He came along when my husband needed a father figure, and that's what he got...
...there is no indication that their marriage, on its own terms, is anything less than happy. "Paul and I both share a way of life," she says. "People think that if you have lots of money, you miss all the good things. But I guess we've got our cake, and eat it too." Paul calls Virginia home, and on weekends he rides as much as he can. Last month, riding on a mount called Christmas Goose, he won, for the fourth year, Virginia's famous 100-mile ride, a three-day exercise that is meant to test...
...Evangelist Oral Roberts tells it, he got the instructions straight from the Lord, just as Noah got the measurements for the Ark. Out walking in the California desert one day early in 1977, he heard God's plans for a hospital. It would be, said the Lord, "a new and different medical center," where "the healing streams of prayer and medicine must merge." Dubbed the City of Faith, it would rise in three towers, across from Oral Roberts University, behind a 60-ft. statue of healing hands. Biblical numerology was big in the Lord's plans: 777 beds...
...made his ambition known to people close to Mr. B and finally got the call. He went to Balanchine's apartment expecting exploratory talks, and instead was offered a deal to start in July. "He was simple and welcoming," says Misha. Balanchine was also reassuring about his vaunted control over City Ballet. "I don't keep my dancers like horses," he told Baryshnikov. "They are free. We are free." (In fact, Baryshnikov will continue to make lucrative guest appearances during City Ballet's offseason...
Paxton had back-to-back birdies on the par-three 15th and par-five 16th. His two-iron sucked up to the flagstick on 15, and he got home in two on the 16th, smashing a three-wood onto the elevated, redan green which typifies this course. Paxton then slipped to double-bogeys on the next two holes, spraying teeshots into the woods on 17 and the 583-yard 18th...