Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chile, with 79,600 men under arms (v. 63,000 for the Peruvians), would be the underdog in any set-to with its northern neighbor, partly because it has found modern weapons almost impossible to buy. Reason: the U.S. and Britain have imposed tight embargoes on sales of arms to General Augusto Pinochet's regime because of its callous record on human rights. Although Chile has begun receiving about 50 American F-5E and A-37 warplanes, ordered before the embargo, they may not be a match for Peru's Russian-made Su-22s, especially if Soviet training...
Jerry Conant, an ad-man in Greenwood, Connecticut, working on commercials to promote freedom in the Third World for the State Department, has grown morbidly fearful of death. Finding his wife Ruth provides him little comfort, he turns to the arms of a neighbor, Sally Mathias, who (as she represents it) is oppressed by her husband Richard. Their affair is heady, passionate, and now they are faced with the problem of resolving it--whether they will deny themselves the pleasure, or leave their respective spouses and children for each other...
...other local backers brought in a new lawyer and an investigator who worked to nail down the time sequence more firmly. They got assistance from a CBS executive who pinpointed exactly when a particular movie scene had been broadcast-ten seconds past 9:50-because one neighbor had been watching the scene when Peter called...
...dedicated fuss-budgetry gives her a strong center of gravity whenever celebrity threatens to throw her off balance. Says she: "The main thing is I don't want to lose myself. If I get hit by a car, I want to go out knowing I returned my neighbor's cake...
Other students have expressed frustration about what they see as Pennypacker residents' observance of the "incest taboo"--the tendency to view the man or woman next door as a friend or neighbor, but never as a potential sexual partner. There are exceptions, but in general the men and women "act a lot like brother and sister," a female resident notes. "But that's okay," she quickly adds, "because things are a lot more relaxed that way." The women join readily in games of vertical football and other traditionally all-male Pennypacker pursuits--a fact that surprises Reardon, who had expected...