Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days of Dwight Eisenhower. Warm, efficient, knowing, she belongs there. Jimmy Carter must be just ahead. But the Oval Office, a stride through the curved door, is more a museum than the center of a man's authority. One wonders if Carter is still intimidated by the legend of the office, or if he is determined not to live amid the symbols of Washington status...
...comfort to a damsel in distress. She is Sally Field, playing an industrial-show dancer who has deserted a yokel groom on their wedding day. He is a hopeless dummy, but his dad is not. His dad is, in fact, Jackie Gleason, portraying Buford T. Justice, a self-advertising legend among backwoods peace officers. He is determined to recapture Field for his boy. There is an endless chase, funnily staged by Needham. With the help of many CB friends, girl and brew are safely delivered from evil...
...needed only six years to earn his bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees in physics, as well as a lasting reputation as a grind and a loner. Comments a Pentagon wag: "I hear his mother had to put him out now and then to sun him." The legend is not far from the truth, but he did find time to become a determined swimmer and tennis player...
...subject than Joseba Elosegi, a former captain in the Basque army. His machine-gun company from the Saseta Battalion was recuperating in Guernica when the bombers came. "Guernica's significance does not lie in its stones," he says. "You can change those. What you cannot change is its legend, its face as a spiritual center for the Basques...
...name is synonymous with oceanography. This is the man who brought the world Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus--better known as SCUBA--and helped popularize it with his dives into virtually all of the planet's deep waters. Costeau, who is getting on in years, is something of a legend in his own time. He will speak at 8 p.m. in the Pound Building of the Harvard Law School. There is a $2.00 admission charge...