Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desk, the long, lonely horizon of the Pacific beyond him. "I'm not thinking of any political future. That is nonsense." Indeed, for the moment he is thinking about his 9-lb. 4-oz. granddaughter Jennie Eisenhower, born just three days earlier. He arranges by phone with her mother Julie for an evening visit. "We're elated," he says, and seems to be. "We're going to do our share of babysitting. I'll do almost anything but the 2 a.m. feeding. If I ever wake up I can't get back to sleep...
...helping Julie with her book on her mother, and David is at work on a biography of his grandfather. It is a world of words at San Clemente for the time being. Nixon relishes having the spare time at last for such things, and for just reading and thinking, contemplating events instead of reacting instantly to them. He has even worked out a Nixon rule of knowledge for Presidents. "Knowing a little about everything won't work. Knowing a great deal about important things is essential...
...meaning for the fans. They see the boarded-up men's shop on Beale Street where Elvis bought his first sequined suit. They see Nathan Novick's pawnshop, where he got his first guitar at the age of eleven. They stop at St. Joseph Hospital, where his mother worked as a nurse's aide, and the public housing apartment on Exchange Street where the family lived. When they stop at Humes High School, Diane says: "Can't you just imagine a 16-year-old Elvis walking through the doors every day in a pink shirt with...
...Solomon's famous judgment," sighed one attorney, "was easy compared with the complications of this case." True enough. Solomon, after all, had to decide the rightful mother of only one baby in the biblical dispute between the two harlots. Last week, after two months of tearful, rending drama that riveted their entire nation, Israeli officials settled an even more tangled baby case...
...communion" with 65 million adherents belonging to autonomous churches in 165 nations scattered from Canada to Zambia. To be sure, there are still many tea-sipping High Church bishops, but there are as well a few black ones with more than a passing interest in Marxism. And though the "mother" Church of England still claims 30 million adherents in the U.K., only in the Third World is the church actually growing...