Word: grantham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grantham, a market town of 28,000 in Lincolnshire, has three claims to fame: the 281-ft. spire of St. Wulfram's Church is the third highest in England, Sir Isaac Newton went to school there, and Margaret Hilda Thatcher (nee Roberts) was born and raised in an apartment over her family's grocery store at the corner of North Parade and Broad streets...
...year-round planned community at Middletown, Conn. Invented idea of saving open land at Eastman, N.H., vacation-home project; each landowner gives a piece of land back to community. Newest project is farthest out: a religiously oriented, back-to-the-land community on 1,300-acre farm in Grantham...
Spreading Repression. National vanity is another target. "Politicians want to be loved," says Amnesty Spokesman Mark Grantham. "When we're alleging all over the world that they're acting in a rather crude way, it embarrasses them. It hurts for their ambassador at the U.N., who is there to make an impressive speech against world hunger, to be asked about a sordid case of torture...
...their power and potential, most of the youngsters shooting for their first Super Bowl are mercurial performers who lack what Joe Namath has finally attained: maturity. It has not come easily. Says Teammate Larry Grantham: "It takes everybody a while to get his feet on the ground. I don't see how he handled it as well...