Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Douglas was reared in poverty by his widowed mother in Yakima, Wash., near the mountains where he would later build his beloved wilderness retreat. A lifelong conservationist, naturalist and enthusiastic hiker-climber, he began challenging mountains as a boy in order to rebuild legs ravaged by polio. After graduating from Whitman College, he hitched a freight to New York City, arriving with 60 in his pocket, then worked his way through Columbia Law School-once writing a text for a law correspondence course in a subject he had yet to take himself...
...devote his remaining months as Vice President to the urgent national problems that have always concerned him. But stripped of his political power, he may find that he lacks clout in other areas as well. Instead of being attacked, he may be ignored-the ultimate humiliation for such a lifelong political activist. Richard Cheney, Rumsfeld's successor as White House Chief of Staff, is a Rumsfeld man. When a White House staffer was recently asked a question about the Vice President, he replied "Who?" and then chuckled malevolently...
Died. Joan Whitney Payson, 72, jolly, spirited centimillionaire and lifelong sports fanatic who owned racing stables and, since its inception, the New York Mets baseball team; following hospitalization for a stroke; in Manhattan...
...Douglas Fairbanks Jr., a lifelong Anglophile, recently observed: "In America, the workingman will see someone drive by in his Cadillac and he'll say, 'That guy has a Cadillac and I don't. Some day I am going to have two Cadillacs.' In Britain, the instant reaction is: 'That man has a Rolls-Royce and I don't. He is going to come down to my level...
...until six, he was "a swarthy boy with lank straight hair, who might almost pass for a Hindu." At that point his parents farmed him out to relatives in England, sadistic moralists after the Dickensian type who brutalized him until public school took over. The battered child became a lifelong hater who never quite managed to spit out all his venom...