Word: patrician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alabama-all crucial to him because of their early February and March primaries. He must make a good showing fast or he is almost sure to sink among all the contenders. At each stop Bush, lean, elegant and softspoken, handled the crowds with the easy grace of a Yankee patrician to the political manner born. His father, Prescott Bush, was a Senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1962. George Bush went to Phillips Academy, Andover, and to Yale, where he made Phi Beta Kappa, before moving to Texas in 1948, where he later helped found and run the Zapata Petroleum...
...patrician family, Teddy was hardly a candidate for prominence or longevity. He spent much of his childhood as an asthmatic gasping for breath; an aunt compared the boy to a "pale azalea." Then one day when Teddy was eleven, his domineering father told him: "You have the mind but you have not the body." With the toothy snarl that was to become famous, the son replied: "I'll make my body." That he did for the rest of his life, absorbing punishment as a boxer, hunter, mountain climber and rancher. In Roosevelt's last year at Harvard...
...winner and name to match. He is Henri Giscard d'Estaing, son of France's President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, running for the council of the farming district of Marchenoir. Giscard fils does not downplay his family connection or resemblance to the tall, coolly patrician Giscard père: "I have the virus of politics and I have had good coaching." Working out of a former butcher shop, he has shaken hands with at least one-third of the district's 6,000 people. A defeat of Communist and Socialist opponents who mock...
...Annie (Kathleen Quinlan). She is accompanied by her Aunt Helen (Elizabeth Wilson), her older sister Andrea (Meryl Streep) and her mother Ruth (Nancy Marchand), an unresigned widow. (Colleen Dewhurst played Ruth for a few performances but withdrew because of a prior commitment.) A fifth woman distinctly jars this ostensibly patrician clan. Dixie Avalon (Dixie Carter) is a breezy, purse-swinging entertainer who has been hired by one of the absent menfolk to sing Oh Promise Me, apparently as a prank. Dixie clearly plans to get cash for her trash...
DIED. Stephen S. Gardner, 56, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (1974-76); of cancer; in Washington, D.C. As the patrician chairman of Philadelphia's third largest bank, the Girard, Gardner substantially increased the number of the bank's black employees and contributed to the city's cultural life by supporting such institutions as the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1976 President Ford selected the moderate Republican for a 14-year term on the Fed's seven-member board of governors...