Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baptism of the Spirit (in the bathtub, at five). Howard Smith, a columnist for Manhattan's Village Voice, heard about Marjoe at a party last year, taped an interview with him, and recognized him as a find. Smith then talked Theater Mogul Donald S. Rugoff and California Entrepreneur Max Palevsky (until recently a big McGovern bankroller) into backing a documentary through Cinema...
...nine years ago became the youngest actress to win an Academy Award (for her portrayal of Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker); and John Astin, 42, who found greater success in television comedy (The Addams Family, I'm Dickens . . . He's Fenster) than in movies (Viva Max, Candy); she for the third time, he for the second; in Washington...
...Swiss government is trying to deal with the Jurassians by means of a seven-man group of political "wise men," headed by former Swiss President Max Petitpierre. So far the wise men have come up with no solutions. As a result, says one foreign diplomat, the Swiss now "have their own liberation front, which shows that they're ready to join the world at large...
...also the organization's budget director and became known to McGovern staffers as a tight-fisted spender. "I'm a good clamper-downer," says Kimelman. "I have a lot of one-word answers: No." Among others who bridled at Kimelman's autocratic ways was Max Palevsky, a Xerox millionaire and prime McGovern contributor. Recently he pulled out of the candidate's organization, partly over differences with Kimelman...
British colonialism has produced a remarkable assortment of fruits and nuts, notably Lawrence of Arabia. But there have also been magnificent blossoms. Sir Richard Burton, the 19th century linguist and imperialist advance man, was an entire garden of delights. Gerald Hanley, the novelist and screenwriter (The Blue Max), is no Burton, although at one point in this memoir he claims to have succeeded where Burton failed-in discovering the secret of Wabaio, a potent arrow poison...