Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oregon, 13 of the total 23 Democratic state senators have already signed a letter to Kennedy urging him to declare for the presidency. Republicans, led by John Connally, are now campaigning throughout the area, attracting big and enthusiastic crowds. The West, in other words, is fertile ground for a host of aspiring Presidents-for just about anyone that is, but Jimmy Carter...
KENNETH CLARK, educator: There are no transcendent leaders, but on a lower level there is Gloria Steinem, an articulate and thoughtful representative of the women's movement. Andy Young has stirred up controversy; if you're not getting into trouble, you're not breaking new ground or asking people to rethink old notions...
...average in-the-ground pool is 18 ft. by 38 ft. and retails for $8,900, a little more than the price of a quality midsize car, but bigger and fancier models cost as much as $30,000. Even sales of above-ground kiddie-type pools, which retail for $700 to $1,200, are running 15% ahead of last year. Total purchases of pools, chemicals and equipment should reach a record of close to $3 billion. The market is helped by the new attention to fitness and the inflation in costs of faraway vacations, but the driving force is gasoline...
...Thomas More Book Store, forced by the University to leave its old home on Holyoke St., will relocate on the ground floor of Holyoke Center early next month, but at a rent so high that the proprietors say they will be forced to sell the store within a year...
...reason Dracula remains forever undead is that no amount of cinematic miscalculation can entirely loosen his grip on our imaginations. Now he has proved that even an excess of good taste cannot entirely ground him. Not permitted to parody romantic menace as he was able to do on the stage, Langella shows himself capable of playing it straight and slightly melancholic. Kate Nelligan, as Lucy, the young woman who enthralls him and is herself enthralled, is superbly spirited. In the film's early scenes, she plays the part as a liberated lady, turn-of-the-century variety. Once Dracula...