Word: personic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...girl he settled on already has a regal air. "She was very different from most of the females at Princeton, more determined," recalled an architecture-school classmate last week. "She was a controlled person." Known to her close friends as "Buck," she worked hard at her studies but liked to organize dinners and parties. She dropped out for a year to attend a photography workshop in Aspen, where she developed into a competent skier; she also plays a mean game of tennis and squash...
...perhaps even more crucial training for Cauthen began years before. He was reared, his mother says, "to be polite to everyone and to have good table manners." Put it another way: to be a gentleman, to be a gentle person. Human beings may or may not detect this quality, but a Thoroughbred race horse ?willful and fragile, high-strung and intuitive?certainly does...
Around midnight, just as the men were about to go to sleep, they were called to the scene of an auto accident in Central Square. Two cars were involved, but only one person was hurt, a woman with a serious head injury. She had no memory of what had transpired just prior to the accident, and there was an amazing scene in the back of the truck on the way to the hospital as she frantically asked her husband what had happened. She was desperate to know and kept saying "tell me, tell me," and her husband held her hand...
...added, "I do not believe one single person wants to see blood shed in South Africa...
...wishes to wed again, however, she could have problems, because the Church of England holds that a divorced person cannot remarry in the church while the former partner still lives. In her case, Margaret would have to ask permission of the Queen. Heading off untimely rumors, the royal family quickly let it be known that she has no marriage plans. Certainly, Margaret's remarriage would stir up antimonarchist sentiment in Britain. Immediately after the divorce announcement, Labor M.P. John Lee declared that the new development "must make more urgent the need for a review of the scale of royal...