Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between his position and that of Congress, which has been tinkering with his proposed $25 billion income tax reduction and threatening to spend more than he had wanted. But there were some signs on Capitol Hill that Congress had heard the California message too. Said North Carolina Congressman James Martin, a conservative Republican: "I see people who've traditionally voted for everything, no matter what it cost, and now they're trying to look like fiscal conservatives. It's the two-by-four effect. People up here are getting hit right between the eyes...
...divorce struggle with Remigia, his Italian-born wife of 31 years. A year ago, their lawyers reached a settlement in which she got alimony of $1,500 a month and possession of their houses in the Boston suburb of Newton and on the Caribbean island of St. Martin. But Mrs. Brooke now claims the Senator misrepresented his finances and concealed from her his handling of a $100,000 insurance payment to her mother, Teresa Ferrari-Scacco, for a 1965 auto accident...
...poems to 700 listeners at a local community center. "My basic themes," he explained, "are black Africa, brotherhood in suffering, death and, very naturally, love, with emphasis on woman, both black and white." For his next book, Senghor plans a collection of poetic elegies, including one on Martin Luther King...
...exist. The higher orders may, for example, appear through a curtain, unannounced, in the middle of a Johnny Carson show, exciting little whoops of recognition and incredulity in the audience. (Bob Hope may always do that; Don Rickles can get away with it.) The middle orders make the Dean Martin roast, regularly inhabit the "People" pages of magazines and newspapers. All enjoy, at least for a time, immunity from the agent's call proposing that they do an American Express commercial: "Remember me? I used...
...most notorious of the arrested terrorists was Brigitte Mohnhaupt, 28, a onetime journalism student who is a suspect in the murders of both Dresdner Bank Chairman Jurgen Ponto last July and of kidnaped Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer last October. Peter Boock, 26, and Sieglinde Hofmann, 33, are also suspects in the killings. Rolf Clemens Wagner, 33, was on the wanted list not only for participating in the Ponto and Schleyer atrocities, but also for the 1977 ambush murder of West German Prosecutor Siegfried Buback...