Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gerald and Betty Ford, whose oldest son, Michael, is a Pittsburgh-based Evangelical who gives religious guidance to college students, have joined U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, Football Coach Tom Landry and other notables in convoking 800 "national leaders" to a glittering "Congress of the Laity" in Los Angeles next February. The vague forum, devised by wealthy Lay Evangelist Howard Butt Jr., is intended to gather in one place the broadest possible collection of influential people who are at least "open to the leadership of Jesus Christ...
...emerged from years in receivership. Once it featured entertainers like Harry Belafonte and Wayne Newton; this winter its "headliners" will be its own singing waiters. At least three other hotels are tangled in bankruptcy proceedings; vacant stores dot the island, and even the members of the world's oldest profession have drifted elsewhere to more prosperous locations. No new hotel has opened in a decade; tourist spending in that period has fallen a precipitous 43% by one estimate, and revenues of some establishments have dropped as much...
Plunging through a hole, cutting to elude pursuing linebackers, squirming for ward with with the tacklers best of draped around and to him, have Payton earned may be the hardest runner to bring down in the N.F.L. game. "He's just mule-headed," says his mother Alyne, whose oldest son Eddie returns kicks for the Detroit Lions. "When five or six players get him, he just won't give...
...Cairo three of his four journalist guests* on the plane were ABC's Barbara Walters ("Barbara, so you did come!"), Cronkite and NBC's John Chancellor. For three days the late 20th century's video technology monitored the principals in one of the planet's oldest enmities, as they performed for the world on their biblical home ground. The effect was eerie and complicated. Sometimes it produced a charming bathos, as when, under TV's smiling gaze, former Premier Golda Meir made fond Jewish grandmother's banter with Sadat about his new grandchild...
...outsiders, as other retailers have done when seeking fresh ideas, but to a seasoned, home-grown executive: Edward Finkelstein, 52, president of Macy's of California. Finkelstein quickly sized up the New York store as lacking "verve, excitement and ambience." Its most important good feature, though, was its oldest one: size. Finkelstein seized upon Macy's caverns as he began the rebuilding job. Says he: "It's a beautiful building. It's a good rectangle for fooling around in modernizing...