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coxswain: occupant of the boat that seems to be the only one facing the right way (frontwards). Easily identifiable by the large beek protruding from the mouth known as a "megaphone." Coxswains are the lightest members of the crew and are responsible for steering, coordinating cadence with the stroke, and fighting off crude spectators' assertions that they are wimpish, because of their small stature. (see jockey...
...magazine. Many readers turn to it first for sort of an editorial hors d'oeuvre because of its varied items, some funny, some nostalgic, some simply newsy. Says Senior Editor Martha Duffy, who has edited the section for more than a year: "It is often the lightest part of the magazine, full of incongruities and wit." Gina Mallet has her own analysis of why people need People. Says she, "As Marshall McLuhan once told us, 'Gossip and malice are supreme forms of entertainment and control...
When the results came in, it turned out that the Faculty, in the lightest turnout ever in a council election, swept in most of the conservative slate, but the liberals seemed fairly pleased with the success of their last-ditch effort...
What will probably be Kissinger's lightest moments of the trip came in Egypt, where he touched down to "help define the framework" of the forthcoming talks. The greeting was warm for the Secretary and especially for Nancy Maginnes Kissinger, who was traveling on a diplomatic mission with her husband for the first time. "You are among Henry's family here," Sadat told her. As a wedding gift, he presented the couple a portrait of Kissinger done from photographs by Egyptian Artist Etimad el Taraboulsi (who last week was commissioned to do a companion portrait of Nancy Kissinger...
Standing before U.S. District Judge William Bryant in Washington last week, Watergate Defendant Herbert Porter, 36, made a solemn promise: "1 am absolutely positive in my heart, down to my toes, that I will never get into trouble again." The judge presumably believed him. Porter received the lightest sentence handed out to a Watergate conspirator: 30 days in jail. But then, Porter had participated in only a minor way in the Watergate coverup...