Word: jer
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Chatworth's adventures in cultural schizophrenia start when he is nine. As World War II begins, his family moves to the U.S., where he enrolls in a New Jer sey boarding school. Robbed of sharing England's finest hour, young Pendrid must suffer a blitzing from unruly students who find his accent and manners fruity. His charades of Churchillian courage only complicate his humiliations. Back in postwar England, Chatworth once again finds himself a foreigner. There he plays the American with painful results. But in the U.S., Chatworth has tasted freedom from his crusty English Catholic past...
...Jimmy Carter's confidant, factotum and campaign manager from the first, Hamilton Jordan, 32, can be described as the chief architect of his boss's campaign. In an interview with TIME Correspondent John Stacks, Jordan (pronounced Jer-din) discussed his winning strategy...
...azzuh" and the capital of Austria-as well as a Georgia town by the same name-is "Vy-anna"? Vienna, Ga., incidentally, is the home town of Carter's press secretary, Jody Powell (see THE PRESS). Campaign Director Hamilton Jordan-or, as it is pronounced down home, "Jer-dan"-is from Albany, which, unlike New York's capital, is accented on the second syllable...
...supportive presence of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, West German President Walter Scheel, U.S. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and Britain's Prince Philip, Spain's new King had just decorously assumed power during an official anointing ceremony at the Church of San Jerónimo in Madrid. The façade of an orderly transfer of power from Francisco Franco to his designated heir was persuasively preserved, but a hundred questions were left hanging over the elaborate ritual of pomp and prayer...
...demonstrators - perhaps the largest crowd the outlawed Spanish Communist Party has dared muster since the end of the Civil War in 1939 - gathered outside the Carabanchel Prison in the southwest outskirts of Madrid. As the Te Deum mass for Juan Carlos was scheduled to begin at San Jerónimo, the protesters marched on the sprawling prison, where a number of prominent leftists, including Trade Union Leader Marcelino Camacho, were incarcerated. Mounted police charged the crowd and dispersed them with tear gas, clubs and a water cannon. There were no injuries, and the 23 people arrested were released within...