Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still young (23), still beautiful, Joanne flew to Switzerland, looking for new faces, new excitement. There she met sleek Bolivian Tin Heir Jaime Ortiz-Patiño, 25, and her mother urged her to marry him. The night before the wedding in Paris, Joanne rebelled, cried: "You pushed me into this!" Mother won out, and the couple were married in her apartment. Patiño gave his bride $250,000 in jewelry to show his affection, but the marriage was brief. After a 49-day honeymoon on Capri, Joanne disappeared, taking her money and jewels. Jaime found...
...Czech party Central Committee met just before the latest changes in Moscow, and loudly reaffirmed its unyielding (or "dogmatic") course. But this week Khrushchev is traveling to Prague. He will be accompanied by Bulganin-and Russia's Secret Police Boss Ivan Serov...
...Postmaster General Jim Farley). An expert on Western politics, Barclay gave hours each week to advising students on "practically everything but marriage." When he paid tribute recently to one of his own mentors, he might well have been describing himself. "One of the most humanistic men I have ever met," said he of Historian Charles A. Beard, "a man who would spend hours with his students, perhaps more than he should; but that is a sign of a great...
Looking for Loopholes. In 1948, while he was picking up some spare cash on the off-season banquet circuit, Birdie, then 36, met a brown-haired ex-WAVE namec Mary Hartnett. Mary was not only exceptionally pretty, but had the added attraction of apparent immunity to the Tebbetts charm. It was nearly a year before Birdie could get a date. But when he did, he wooed Mary with the same ardor that helps him win ball games. They were married in the fall...
Whether the volunteer decides to stay with the group, or chooses a special child, it is in this period of group work that the introductory problems are met and overcome by both volunteer and children. "Once the children see that you really care by the fact that you come back again, they will respond readily," Mrs. Cox explains...