Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aluminum siding salesman, Ueberroth was born in Evanston, Ill. on September 2, 1937. When he was 14, after his father became ill, Ueberroth began working a variety of odd jobs. He became increasingly independent, and by the time he was in high school, he had begun to pay his own bills. In Ueberroth's junior year, he moved out of the house to live and work at an orphanage as the recreational director...
After high school, Ueberroth paid his way through San Jose State, working at numerous odd jobs, including selling women's shoes and working on a chicken farm. He graduated in 1959 with a business degree, got married, and, unable to land a job with several large companies, he moved to Hawaii to begin work for a small airline that operated between California and Hawaii...
...easily, he does not easily offer his own trust. It is not by chance that Son Andrew, 28, is his closest political counselor. Preparing for his uphill 1982 race, Cuomo examined a list of 60 prospective campaign managers and rejected them all. Instead, he installed Andrew. It is an odd and intimate partnership. Like no one else, Andrew over the years has learned how to deal with his father's personal force. A skillful manager, Andrew argues politics rather than substance. He almost never retreats. Sometimes he shouts objections into the phone and simply hangs...
Bertagna manages to transform 250-odd pages of encyclopedia material into attention-grabbing vignettes. Witness the shot of Ryan O'Neal mugging with the 1969 freshman hockey squad--complete with freshman Bertagna--during filming of Love Story at Watson Rink. Bet you never knew that then-freshman coach Bill Cleary '56 helped direct the skating scenes--and stood in for O'Neal during the on-ice shooting...
...couple were among the 60-odd survivors of Beirut's once thriving European and American communities, which at their height numbered in the tens of thousands. The staunchest Western holdouts: the academic fraternity, which had made Beirut into the regional center of higher education. But the execution of three hostages--two British teachers and an American librarian --in retaliation for the U.S. bombing of Libya in April persuaded most of the few remaining Westerners to leave. Explains George Miller, a professor at American University of Beirut, who has lived in Lebanon for 40 years: "We stayed until there...