Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...near Chapel Hill. His hard-working doctor father, Isaac ("Ike") Taylor, independently wealthy and from an old Scottish-Southern family, was busily working his way up to the deanship of the University of North Carolina Medical School. "We quite consciously set out to raise our children free of the hang-ups we see in ourselves and our generation," Dr. Taylor explained recently. "We weren't going to use that cop-out of 'because the Bible tells you so.' " James' mother, Trudy Taylor, is the daughter of a Massachusetts fisherman and boat builder who before her marriage trained seriously...
After six months on the job, Colombo, who flies off this week for a five-day U.S. visit that will include a White House conference with President Nixon, has done more than merely hang on. Some Italians are already saying, perhaps prematurely, that he may be the best man in the job since the late Alcide de Gasperi, Italy's premier Premier. Others say that the ascetic, soft-spoken Christian Democrat, whom leftists call "the lay cardinal" for his piety and political skill, has accomplished a political miracle by not only surviving but actually making some progress...
JERRY FULLER, white, 38, former $14,000-a-year electrical engineer who helped build the command module for the 1969 moon landing, is not sure he can hang on to the house in Granada Hills, Calif., where he lives with his wife Pat and three young daughters. "Welfare just doesn't pay enough to make the mortgage payments, buy food, pay doctor bills," he says. After he was laid off in April, 1970, by the North American Rockwell Corporation, he spent seven months seeking another engineering job. He still sends out resumes. But he has been able to find...
...according to Lennon, but "people were robbing us and living off us to the tune of £18,000 to £20,000 a week." He also confided that he considers his talents suitable for competition with the likes of Van Gogh, Renoir and Shakespeare. "That's been my hang-up you know?trying to be Shakespeare or whatever it is. Rock just happens to be the medium which I was born into...
Egypt First. Nasser's picture continues to hang in government offices instead of Sadat's, but Sadat has quickly developed a style and emphasis of his own. He has begun to mute Nasser's stress on Pan-Arabism and concentrate on Egypt's internal problems. When one of United Arab Airlines' aging Comets crashed two weeks ago in Tripoli, killing 16, Sadat grounded the other four and UAA Chairman Ahmed Tewfik Bakry as well; Egypt then leased six Ilyushin 18s from Eastern European airlines. To revamp Cairo's creaking transit system, Sadat...