Word: gray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...improbable match. He is 42, a thrice-married widower, world-weary and prematurely gray after 26 years as leader of one of the Middle East's most pivotal and volatile nations. She is 26, a Princeton-educated single career girl with a keen interest in the arts. He is swarthy, dark-eyed and short (5 ft. 6 in.). She is blonde, blue-eyed and lissome at 5 ft. 7 in. He is a King, and she a commoner, but that seemed not to matter at all. Last week the royal court in Amman announced that Jordan's King...
They certainly look like winners. She in her tailored white suit and pink blouse, as blonde and nearly as smooth-cheeked at 41 as when she first stepped into the winner's circle as a teenager. He in a natty tan suit, his wiry, curly hair gone gray at 66, but otherwise the same trim, erect, rangy 190-pounder who played end for Georgia more than four decades ago. Since their marriage in 1972, Patrice and Louis Wolfson-the owners of Affirmed-have been one of the most successful racing couples in the sport. Their Harbor View stable...
...Dantzic acquired his Cirkut, it took him months to repair it and learn to use it, as well as to find the right film (from Kodak at $30 a one-shot roll). Last summer he set out in a rented Dodge van with his wife Cynthia and their son Gray, 10, to cover 30 states in 100 carefully planned days. Most often people were friendly and helpful. In Butte, Mont., a supervisor led the Dantzics around a mine for two days to find the right vantage point; in San Antonio a cop held up traffic while they took a picture...
...works. None of his adult compositions has been heard ("I have had enough criticism as a performer," he says). But like Liszt, he writes for the piano as if it were an orchestra, aiming for as much drama and depth as possible. One work, A Picture of Dorian Gray (he admires Oscar Wilde's "razor-like mind"), is more than two hours long. As for what might have been, he says quietly, "I would have done the same so-called mistakes." Then he smiles. "And there have been great moments...
...great gray area of the book, however, is you don't know exactly how much Stockwell himself has changed. He says he was disillusioned with the CIA's operations, but he was disillusioned after a tour in Vietnam, and he didn't quit then. It's possible that the Angolan experience left him cynical enough about the CIA's efficacy that he couldn't get excited over more dirty little wars, and his superiors saw the change and decided to stagnate his career. There are indications that he'd've liked it just as well if the U.S. had gone...