Word: lindsay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yorker who wages his campaigns like a war. He barks over the phone, at reporters and candidates alike, so gruffly that he has been nicknamed Garth Vader. He once did graduate studies in psychology, then produced televised sports shows until his passion for politics drew him into John Lindsay's successful 1965 campaign for mayor of New York. He claims since then to have "won" 68 of 83 races, mostly for liberal Democrats. "All but twelve," he adds with characteristic immodesty, "were underdogs." This year, Garth says, he was approached to handle major races in 39 states, and selected...
...tell reporters stiffly: "I hope you will give support and encouragement to Princess Margaret when she comes out of the hospital and goes about her duties again." One paper acknowledged his own new personal status by flashing a front-page picture of "the girl Snowdon may marry," Lucy Lindsay-Hogg, 33, a divorcee who worked with Snowdon on a documentary film in Australia two years ago, and has frequently been seen with him in London...
Rubinowitz skied two phenomenal races. For starters, she finished fifth in the five-kilometer individual race, a little more than one minute behind the winner, Middlebury's Lindsay Putnam. Then, in the four-times-five-kilometer relay, Rubinowitz skied on a team of individual performers from various eastern schools. The team finished third, as Rubinowitz clocked the second-fastest individual time in the race...
Last summer the Ainsworths' five-year-old son developed a persistent rectal disorder. The commune wanted to vote on whether the family should stay or go, but the Ainsworths balked at the notion of group control and left. Was that a proper Iron Age decision? Says Lindsay: "An Iron Age mother would have attended to her child, especially if it was a boy." A specialist later reported that the primitive diet had produced the ailment, which contemporary meals promptly cleared...
...Lindsay recalls the pressure of confinement and the constant bickering during the experiment. "We had nothing else to take up our thinking time," she says. Still, she misses the animals and the plants, and the continuing story about trees that she told the children at nighttime around the fire. "It developed into a saga, and now that's gone." The children are less nostalgic. They now refer to the Celtic experience as a "silly time...