Word: martha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more intricately patterned. But King, Queen, Knave is tricky enough-the ap-pearance-and-reality theme as applied to the eternal love triangle. In Nabokov's idiosyncratic geometry, all three angles are obtuse: Kurt Dreyer, fiftyish, owner of a prosperous department store, is suffused with a jocular egomania; Martha, his 34-year-old wife, beautiful and sybaritic, is dimmed by compulsively romantic restlessness and anticipation; Franz, Dreyer's youthful nephew and employee, is a myopic, precariously balanced bumpkin...
...plans to marry Donald Hasler, a white student at New Jersey's Monmouth College. "Daddy said, 'Oh, you're so young,' " recalled Remi. But the Senator soon came around, and plans are set for a June wedding at the family's summer place on Martha's Vineyard. Donald's folks were all cheers. Said his mother: "They're in love-and that's all that counts...
When Byron L. Ramsing returns this summer to Martha's Vineyard, he is in for a rude surprise. His Chilmark house, which used to be a safe 200 ft. from the cliffs overlooking the sea, is now only 80 ft. away, and the broad stone steps that were once in his backyard are now on the beach below. On the New Jersey shore, the sea has slowly devoured 50 square blocks of the town of Cape May Point, and St. Peter's by the Sea Episcopal Church, a frame structure which has already been moved three times...
Students whose parents contribute nothing to their college expenses will be able to apply to the financial aid office for summer funding, and the office will grant funding to the neediest, Martha C. Lyman, acting director of financial aid, said yesterday...
...income level drops to under $3,000 visits drop to 3.2 per year. Even with free medical programs this discrepancy remains. In England after fifteen years experience with the National Health Service, it's the higher income groups that make better use of the program. And at the Martha Eliot Center, Dr. Salber said, the children have many more minor ailments than normally: colds, respiratory ailments, chronic coughs. "We wonder if they get their medicine," she said...