Word: mannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those must be the scarlet and white silks of the CBS-TV stable that Kristy McNichol, 17, is wearing as she sits astride a big mount named Gilford. The tomboy of the Family sitcom series stars this week in My Old Man, a TV movie in which she is Jo Butler, the track-wise daughter of a down-on-his-luck horse trainer, played by Warren Gates. The film is out of a short story of the same title by Ernest Hemingway, but the bloodline is a little thin. Joe Butler, the American boy in Hemingway's tale about...
Pianist Bobby Short. That did not mean that the feisty composer had been defused. When one admirer became too mushy, the balding Thomson protested: "Get this man out of my hair...
...Kennedys claim that a Georgia neurosurgeon said it would be five years before the girls could be judged normal or retarded. Kennedy, who later lost his accounting job and moved the family to San Diego in hopes of selling real estate, was inclined to take the neurosurgeon literally. "A man of his standing," says Kennedy, "knows what he's talking about...
...exercise." Clinic Chairman Hagen is convinced that the Kennedy case suggests there is a large psychological input in language development. Says Hagen: "They were in a somewhat sensory-deprived environment, but they didn't stop at a signal system. To me their private language represents strong evidence that man has a basic drive to communicate beyond minimal needs. Language evolves to do just that...
...many Americans, the coolest and most visible U.S. official throughout the tense Iranian crisis has been a man few of them had ever heard of: Hodding Carter III, the State Department's chief spokesman. Each day at noon, he has faced an obstreperous crowd of 100 or so reporters in Room 2118 of the department's headquarters, fully aware that a slip on his part could provoke tragedy in Tehran. Nearly every night a portion of his performance is replayed on the network news programs. Precise, articulate and diplomatic for the most part, Carter has nevertheless managed...