Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bogotá; many of the commercial galleries, both uptown along the axes of Madison Avenue and 57th Street, and downtown in SoHo, do not reopen until September. All the same, there is as much going on in Manhattan this summer as in many other U.S. cities at the height of their art season...
While the Miguel brothers, Angel and Sebastian, were at the height of their prestige, Sota scrapped his way into the pro ranks after learning the game as a caddie. In 1963, he won the Spanish Open and the same year teamed up with Sebastian to come within three strokes of winning the World Cup. Only a blitz by Nicklaus, who was paired with Arnold Palmer, staved off an American loss in the fog-ridden final at Paris...
...have bewitched, bothered or bitten Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, who edited the story, for quite some time. "My most bitter bug experience was in 1956," recalls Jaroff. "On assignment in Labrador for LIFE magazine I had to go through dense bush to get to Grand Falls. It was the height of the blackfly season, and I returned with 500 bites on my body. For 20 years, I've waited to get even...
...height of their earning powers, Erasmo made $160 a week as a dishwasher, and Eloina $140 on the sewing machine ("We didn't save anything, but we got by"), and then Erasmo injured his back while carting pans around the restaurant. He underwent an operation three years ago but has never fully recovered. Today he works as a part-time handyman and gets $229 a month in welfare payments...
...outdone by their countrywomen, the notoriously foppish young men of London's Macaroni Club (so named because of its members' love of Continental food and fashions) have also begun sporting coiffures of enormous height. Most Englishmen, however, are turning to a more natural look. The cumbersome, bottom-heavy periwig, with its almost waist-length expanse of curls, has long since given way to a proliferation of shorter, more comfortable styles...