Word: pert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COEDS: Girls have invaded what was once an exclusively male world; this year there are 198 females, mostly laywomen, among the Greg's 2,858 students. The majority are in the Institute of Religious Sciences for the Laity or the social sciences department, but a pert German blonde, Hannalore Oesterle, 25, is studying in the department of theology, planning to get a doctorate and return to Germany to become religious editor of a newspaper...
...Hubert Humphreys, was named Pat Nixon's press secretary. Her former colleagues were even more distressed when press releases were late and uninformative. Now Gerry is moving to Rome as special assistant to U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin. In her place the First Lady has named Connie Stuart, a pert redhead who at 31 is one of the youngest ever to handle the White House job. Connie met the Nixons last year when her husband, also a presidential staffer, was doing yeoman campaign work around the country. But her appointment is no political payoff. After five years' experience...
...Katie were a man, I would marry her and be faithful to her the rest of my life." So vows Rachel Porter, 21, who is slightly plump, wears her blonde hair in a pert pixy cut, and works as a secretary in a Manhattan publishing firm. Rachel has been seeing Katie Burns, a tall, strikingly handsome private secretary in a large corporation, for three years now, and sharing an apartment with her for three months. Yet Rachel's feelings are mixed. "I don't really say to this day that I am a lesbian," she says...
Divorced. Eddie Fisher, 40, sometime crooner-actor, onetime husband of Elizabeth Taylor; by Connie Stevens, 30, pert star of TV's Hawaiian Eye; on grounds of cruelty; after one and a half years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...starred in the critically acclaimed movie Isabel, is getting a crack at the coveted part. In London for the filming of the latest version of Anne of the Thousand Days, Genevieve won generous praise from her leading man, Richard Burton. "She seems to me like a very pert tart-in the proper sense," he said. "I have no doubt she will steal all the notices." King Richard also indicated that playing Henry VIII might be the capstone of his movie career, which should cheer those who think his talents are wasted in films. "Much of acting is tedium...