Word: patly
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Foreign countries were often quaint places to TIME, and the s magazine made rather pat generalizations about peoples and races ("Northumbrians are easily drastic"). But TIME was international-minded from the start. It grew much more so as the old maps went mad and the fate of America became intertwined with distant places hitherto unknown and still unpronounceable. Covering the world beyond America is today one of TIME'S most important tasks...
...large by an overseeing national commission. They were white, black, yellow, Hispanic and Indian-and four were Eskimo. They were rich, poor, radical, conservative, Democratic, Republican and politically noninvolved. Three Presidents' wives were guests: Rosalynn Carter, Betty Ford and Lady Bird Johnson. (Jackie Onassis turned down an invitation; Pat Nixon was ill.) By the end of the Houston conference, the women's movement had armed itself with a 25-point, revised National Plan of Action. By convincing majorities, the delegates called for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment; free choice on abortion, along with federal and state funds...
BORN. To Debby Boone, 27, wholesome pop singer and daughter of Pat Boone, who recorded a 1977 hit single of You Light Up My Life, but has not lit up the charts since, and Gabriel Ferrer, 26, her manager, son of Actor José Ferrer and Singer Rosemary Clooney: twin girls; in Hollywood...
...youngest sibling, Tommy (Dennis Christopher), forms the crux of the conflict. Tommy suffers from a hereditary kidney ailment, and needs a transplant--preferably from within the family--to survive. His only prospects are Brother Earl (Gary Kian), an over-aged, childlike buffoon; brother James (Pat MacNamara), a reformed alcoholic and aspiring academic; and Harry (Frank Converse), the only realistic possibility, a Beacon Hill lawyer married into wealth and long ago estranged from the family. Compounding the tension is the elder McMillan (Carroll O'Connor), an aging Irish head-of-the-local who believes firmly in organized labor, romanticizes the good...
RECOVERING. Pat Nixon, 71, former First Lady; from a mild stroke; in Saddle River, N.J. After five days of treatment in a New York City hospital, she returned home in good condition. Mrs. Nixon eventually made a complete recovery from a more severe stroke in 1976 that had at first left her partially paralyzed...