Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tina Onassis won an Alabama divorce in 1960 on the ground of mental cruelty, and later married the jet-set Marquess of Blandford. The split resulted from Onassis' liaison with Diva Maria Callas, now 44, a decade-long affair that ended only five months ago at Ari's initiative. During their often fiery involvement, La Callas sometimes occupied a suite in Monte Carlo's L'Hermitage hotel, near Onassis' apartment and offices; a tunnel connected the two. Though Callas was most frequently photographed aboard the yacht, it had been Tina who inspired "Telis," as his friends call...
...awkward bird. His body jackknifed, his legs spread-eagled before he slammed into the pit. When the Scoreboard flashed the result, the crowd gasped with disbelief. Beamon sank to his knees, hands clasped in prayer. "I was thanking that man up there," he explained, "for letting me hit the ground right here...
Hofer, who founded the department of Printing and Graphic Arts, has been with the Houghton Library since its beginning. "Before the Houghton was built," he recalls, "the rare books and manuscripts were being kept in Widener Library, in stacks that were on the ground, or even below ground, where the heat was enormous. There wasn't any way to turn it off adequately. Every morning when Bill [William A. Jackson, curator of the Houghton from 1942 until his death in 1964] and I arrived at the so-called rare book room of Widener Library, the temperature would be a minimum...
Hunt added that he hoped his runners had learned from the meet how important it is not to fall too far behind the pace-setters in the early stages of a race. Meitzoff, for example, "made a tremendous finish but simply gave up too much ground at the start," the coach said...
Pittsburgh's four-year-old Business & Job Development Corp., owned and run by Negroes, has won enough financial support from civic leaders to start an ambitious industrial park in the Home-wood-Brushton ghetto. Last month the nonprofit group broke ground for a $1,100,000 plant that Westinghouse Electric will lease. Westinghouse will install Negro managers, hire about 75 ghetto residents. The development corporation plans a second industrial park, two shopping centers and a ghetto bank...