Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Assorted Maharajahs. Britain's Prince Charles was there with his granduncle, Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India. So were the Crown Prince of Japan, the Governor General of Australia, the Presidents of Sri Lanka and Pakistan and the vice president of India. The somewhat modest U.S. delegation was headed by Presidential Counsel Philip Buchen and Senator Charles Percy of Illinois. Most prominent among the women guests was Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines, whose retinue of 40 included Mrs. Henry Ford II and Dr. and Mrs. Christiaan Barnard. They had been visiting the Marcoses in Manila...
...pictures in Elsa's Housebook are surprisingly small and often less revealing of Dorfman and her subjects than the prose that surrounds and often threatens to overwhelm them. Nearly all of the pictures were taken within the last two years in the kitchen or livingroom of Dorfman's modest duplex near Mather House, where she is a photography tutor...
Missing Material. But when an IRS employee leaked to the press that the First Family had been paying suspiciously modest taxes, investigations were begun by both the IRS and Congress and the truth quickly came out. The typewriter used by DeMarco to make out the deed was found to have been purchased several months after the date on the document. Mary Livingston, who had been troubled by the request made of her, and will be a key witness at the trial, told investigators of how she had been used in the undertaking. On top of that, Nixon's personal...
...soft-spoken father of four and a man of modest taste-he has not bought a suit in five years-Goldwin is also self-effacing about his academic achievements. "Goldman and [Arthur] Schlesinger were academic stars. I'm not a scholar in that class. Most of the work I've done has been an attempt to build a bridge between scholars and people with heavy public responsibilities. But there's an art to that...
...ministry from his friend Moshe Dayan less than a year ago, the Polish-born Peres has earned a reputation as a highly effective administrator who has helped rebuild the Israeli army's morale, which was shattered by the losses of the October war. He lives simply, sharing a modest book-filled apartment in Tel Aviv with his wife Sonia and two of their three children (the third is married). In his private hours, Peres, who studied at both Harvard and New York University, writes books about contemporary Israeli problems, as well as poetry that he refuses to publish...