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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...willingness to change with the times helps keep him the front runner in the most recent polls, even though Ravenel has benefited from appearances on the hustings by some prominent out-of-staters: Jimmy Carter, his mother, his son Chip, and two Cabinet Secretaries. Vows Thurmond: "I'm gonna whup...
Such discussion only added to the pressures on the assembled Cardinals to consider both health and age more significant in their decision than either had been before. In Rome, a Cardinal was overheard reporting, "I'm over 70. But I feel great. I've got a good pulse, and blood pressure...
...dogs romp ahead, Cheever acknowledges that he is more accessible, more willing to appear in public than in the past: "I began getting out more when I realized that I'm not only dependent on readers, I rely on their response." He was especially pleased by the mail he received after Falconer was published last year. "A book about a homicidal, fratricidal drug addict," he says, shaking his head. "I got perhaps two crank letters. The rest were thoughtful comments from concerned, well-informed men and women...
...know," Isaac Bashevis Singer I used to muse, "when I sit down to write I have a feeling that I'm talking maybe to millions or maybe to nobody." Last week he could be assured of at least 18 avid readers-the members of the Swedish Academy, which awarded the 74-year-old writer the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature for his "impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life...
ENGAGED. James Earl Ray, 50, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., serving a 99-year jail term near Knoxville, Tenn.; and Anna Sandhu, 32, courtroom artist. Explained Sandhu, who met Ray last year during a hearing on his prison escape: "I'm marrying him because I love him and because I know he's not a murderer...