Word: pate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Berger is an imposing presence. His shaved pate-a daily ritual for 16 years-gleams above a dark turtleneck sweater. "Since nature had made me half bald," he explains, "I thought I'd go it one better...
...regalia of the wedding were matched in ingenuity if not in splendor by the celebrations surrounding them. Angus Henry, 25, a freelance caterer, and Gwyn Jenkins, 25, an interior designer, set up hard by Buckingham Palace with a television, three cases of sparkling white wine, masses of duck pate, a crate of salmon sandwiches, French bread, orange juice and a large black umbrella. They threw a party right there for 50 friends, and on the wedding morning Angus changed into a morning suit. All along the wedding route, spectators wrapped themselves in flags and youths painted the Union Jack...
...been a long dry spell, nearly three years without a tournament victory, for Golfer Jerry Pate. So when the drought was finally broken with a win in the Danny Thomas-Memphis Classic, Pate made up for it, striding right off the 18th green and diving into a lake in celebration. Pate, who won the U.S. Open in his rookie year (1976), had another good reason for taking the plunge: the victory made him, at 27, the youngest golfer ever to earn more than $1 million in tournament purses. "I hadn't won in so long, I wanted to make...
...help relieve the long hours of isolation. The monotony was also broken by the visits of other cosmonauts, who arrived in Soyuz ferry craft, the workhorses of the Soviet manned space effort. In addition to regular supplies, they carried mail, such special snacks as fresh borsch, strawberries and quail pate, not to mention a guitar. Though Salyut was designed to last 18 months, it continues to function thanks to on-board repairs by the cosmonauts plus periodic shipments of fuel, food, water, air and equipment...
DIED. Russell ("Lucky") Hayden, 68, né Pate Lucid, once known as the "rootin', tootin', ridin' Romeo of the screen." A sidekick to William Boyd in the Hopalong Cassidy series, he toured the country in 1950 asking kids if they approved of kissing in westerns (87% favored it if there was plenty of hard riding and fighting beforehand); of pneumonia; in Palm Springs...