Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THE STOCK MARKET began celebrating on the first rumors of devaluation; the Dow Jones industrial average has risen sharply since Thanksgiving. Wall Streeters were registering their relief that the international money crisis appeared to be on the way to solution. The market stands to get a more direct boost from...
Divorced. Jack Jones, 33, low-key nightclub and recording star (Wives and Lovers, The Impossible Dream); and Gretchen Roberts, 21, a former airline stewardess and Jones' third wife, after Model Lee Larance and Actress Jill St. John; ending one year of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles.
Died. Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr., 69, only golf champion ever to take the sport's Grand Slam by winning the British Amateur, British Open, U.S. Amateur and U.S. Open in one year; in Atlanta. The Jones family home was located on the grounds of a suburban Atlanta golf...
The strongest cases had come to trial first. Jerry Rupe, 23, was convicted of a misdemeanor for interfering with a fireman at the scene of the burning ROTC building. Two other students pleaded guilty to first-degree rioting. A fourth defendant was freed when a principal witness failed to identify...
Barbie's rival Dawn stars this year in a beauty pageant-a mini-Miss America contest complete with bathing suits, evening dresses, a dinner-jacketed escort doll named Gary and a jeweled scepter all on a pink plastic stage. "It is a part of Americana," explains Jack Jones, a...