Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cooped-Up Rebels. Though one of his forebears had been appointed the first resident consul in Canton by President James Madison, it was mostly wanderlust that led the Missouri-born Snow into a lifelong love affair with China. After earning a journalism degree at the University of Missouri and working as a reporter briefly in Kansas...
...return of Vietvets, many of whom acquired heavy habits in military canteens, where untaxed cigarettes sell for about 11? a pack. The disappearance of broadcast commercials seems to have had little effect one way or the other. A reason may be that during their final years of life, Madison Avenue's well-paid, glamorous advocates of cigarettes were answered by a host of public-service messages that cited the scarifying findings of medical research into smoking. Most of these effective anti-tobacco ads disappeared from radio and TV after the ban on cigarette commercials...
...SECOND SHOW began sometime around 10:30 p.m. Outside New York's Madison Square Garden on a windy and cold January 28th, some four thousand people waited to press into the Felt Forum as some five thousand piled out. The big yellow neon board billed "Yevtushenko" and, under his name, "Camper and Trailer Show." This was the second performance of the largest poetry reading anyone had ever attempted to stage in America...
...meantime, 6'5" Number 24 continues to play the game he already knows well. He spent yesterday in the whirlpool at Madison Square Garden nursing an injured right call muscle which has kept him out of two games. One way or the other, he'll play out this season--which will give him a late start for the August primary...
...help re-create his experience in the U.S. and simultaneously promote his new book Stolen Apples. Advertising and producing his American appearances will cost nearly $100,000. So far the suave, sallow Siberian has performed for tens of thousands at the University of South Carolina, the Felt Forum in Madison Square Garden and arenas in Pittsburgh, Princeton and Chapel Hill. Yevtushenko asks triumphantly: "Who says Americans don't love poetry...