Word: helene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this particular gala also had its grim side. Alternating with the show- biz stars were people like Helen Kushnick, a Beverly Hills mother who lost her three-year-old son Sammy in 1983 to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, the deadly disease known as AIDS, and the Rev. Stephen Pieters, a minister with the North Hollywood Metropolitan Community Church, who has suffered from AIDS since 1984. The message from President Reagan, who had made his first public mention of the widely feared and often stigmatizing illness at a press conference two evenings earlier, also concerned the scourge of AIDS. Read by Actor...
...almost any other society, such reforms would seem barely adequate at best --and decades or even centuries overdue. But in South Africa, they were seen as significant cracks in the structure of "grand" apartheid envisioned by the late Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd. Helen Suzman, a veteran antiapartheid Member of Parliament, called the proposed changes "probably the most important step forward in 30 years." Botha had said nothing about parliamentary representation for the black majority, she conceded, let alone the right to vote. But, she said, "the abolition of pass laws and influx control, to my mind, is something that should...
...reporters and presidential press secretaries. Larry Speakes is the latest to insist self-righteously on a narrow definition of his probity: it was the White House, not Speakes himself, that put out the misleading report that no biopsy had been performed on the President's skin cancer. But, protested ^ Helen Thomas of U.P.I., "you were not candid." Speakes: "Do you want to say that I did not tell the truth?" Thomas: "Aw, come on, get off of that!" Speakes: "No, you come on!" Thomas: "You pulled an iron curtain down on the truth." Speakes: "Exactly right...
...World. "More people are regular walkers than runners, about 55 million compared with 34 million." Malls--conveniently located, climate controlled and security patrolled--have rapidly emerged as the ideal site for stress-free strutting. "We don't have to bother with dogs, traffic problems, rocks, hills or pollen," exults Helen Gulledge, 69. An arthritis sufferer, she and her husband Luther, 75, who has heart trouble, tick off up to two miles daily at the Haywood Mall in Greenville, S.C. Overweight adults, pregnant women and mothers with infants are also now walking the malls...
Coxswain "Helen [Lee] was creating opposition for us by calling out moves by imaginary teams," explained stroke and Co-Capatain Chris-Doye...