Word: grew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They feed lines to each other with the smooth telepathy of an old married couple, but in fact their only relationship is professional. He grew up in Philadelphia and wanted to be a song-and-dance man; she was raised in a suburb of Chicago and wanted to sing in cabarets. When they met at the Proposition in Cambridge, however, they knew they had something else going. "We thought, 'Wouldn't we be great onstage?' " says Suzanne. " 'We make each other laugh so.' " They started working "semisteadily," as they put it, two years...
Little Betty Perske from Brooklyn grew up into Lauren Bacall, long-legged, throaty-voiced actress and wife of Humphrey Bogart and Jason Robards. Soon readers will learn "the whole story," as she puts it, in her first book, Lauren Bacall By Myself, to be published in January. Her contract with Knopf "came along at a time in my life when I didn't know what I was going to do," says Bacall, 53. The autobiography, which describes her marriages and her affair with Frank Sinatra, will "tell much more about me than I ever thought people should know," says...
...Within a few hours, Denard and his gang had shot up Soilih's bodyguard, put the dictator under arrest and accepted the surrender of the Comoran army, a ragtag force of 200 men who had not fired a shot. The coup touched off a week of celebration that grew still more frenzied with the announcement that Soilih had died while "trying to escape...
...appointed to administer the church between his own death and the election of a new Pope. While the others in the room retreated to a far side, Paul spoke privately for five or six minutes with Villot, who is also the Vatican Secretary of State. The Pope's breathing grew more and more labored. At one point he said, "We have arrived at the end. We thank ..." Then his voice trailed off. A little later, he asked those around him to "pray for me." His last words were to the effect that the death of a Pope is like that...
...thermostats but also redesigning buildings, installing energy-saving devices on assembly lines and driving the conservation message home to employees. The economical use of power at the plant or office is bound to carry over to a heightened energy consciousness for workers at home. Last year, when the economy grew at a rate of nearly 5%, industrial use of energy increased only...