Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crazy like Napoleon. Margaux has picked up the fashion world and wrapped it round her little finger; she has tamed the press and subdued Madison Avenue. "It's like a fairy tale," she agrees. "But blah blah, woof woof, as Jimi Hendrix used to say." Says Miss Mary, Ernest Hemingway's widow (and Margaux's step-grandmother): "She was such a nice healthy kid, I hope nothing spoils her, natch." About her publicity-hating grandfather, Margaux is admiringly respectful, exulting: "Grandpa's spirit's in my marrow." But she prefers people to realize that...
...half of the schools and scholarship committee leadership. Simpson's function is to coordinate the more than 40 Philadelphia alumni interviewers who spring into action after he receives the names of all who applied to Harvard from the Philadelphia area. The job is time-consuming--he tries not to miss a single one of Philadelphia's more than 140 applicants--and pressed into saying why he takes the time away from family to run the interview program, he says. "Like a sponge I soaked up a lot of Harvard when I went there and now I want to give some...
...that, say the Maryland researchers, is part of their problem. Because they tend to avoid aggression, some psychiatrists miss signs that their patients may be violent-and hence do nothing to head off approaching trouble. In fact, the Maryland study found that psychiatrists as a rule dislike discussing violence with their patients, or even with each other. When Dr. Madden and his colleagues first asked their psychiatrist-subjects if they had ever been assaulted, the response was "no." Only when pressed did they admit to being attacked...
...years before Texans ask for 38-liter hats, or a Miss America measures 91-66-91, or a new Hank Aaron hits a towering 109-meter home run. Inevitably and irreversibly, however, the metric system is coming...
...become Miss U.S.A., I would have become a counselor for the Girl Scouts this summer," said Summer Bartholomew, 23, sounding like any old girl-next-door. After collecting this year's Miss U.S.A. crown at Niagara Falls, however, the Merced, Calif., beauty has forsaken the scouting life for the banquet circuit and a shot at the Miss Universe title in San Salvador in a month. On her first-ever visit to New York City, Summer talked about her victory ("My first thought was to thank the Lord") and her recent trip to Niagara Falls ("That's where...