Word: partner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quickie, temporary marriages; for a fee of around $1,000, many American men and women will offer to wed an illegal alien. The couple are soon divorced; the alien wins the right to stay in the country while the American is ready for the next match. If a marriage partner is not available, an illegal alien can use another close relation to gain legality. Gino Ciampa, 28, a hairdresser in Boston, preferred not to wed in order to stay in America. "I wanted to marry for love," he explains. Instead he persuaded his mother to come from Italy to live...
Below is the scoreboard for the day's round. The name of Spence's partner remains a dark secret, to protect him against any charges of cowardice, since he tore up his card after the seventh hole...
...round of golf on a true links-type course. The first rounds of spring are often the most memorable, and so it was on Wednesday, when Spence Fitzgibbons took up his springy driver and embarked on a nine-hole jaunt over the Primrose course with a playing partner who will remain anonymous...
...Harvard gold team, having served in that capacity for two seasons. His full name is Edward Spence Fitzgibbons Jr., though he has acquired a long train of nicknames during the course of his career, the most endearing of which are "Four-Year-Old," "Jumbo," "Watty," and "Fitzleman." His playing partner on this occasion was a certain young slasher who sometimes writes about golf for the Harvard paper...
Beyond these services, the extramural-hospital system offers the stay-at-homes trained therapists and household help. Such aid is particularly important for elderly couples if, say, one partner has had a stroke and the other can no longer cope with the chores. A "meals-on-wheels" service, manned by volunteers-mainly from the Red Cross-delivers some 1,000 hot trays a day. If the patient needs help, the volunteer can quickly summon a nurse, social worker or the patient's family physician, who retains overall charge of the case. Says Susan Foss: "Five days a week...