Word: petted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sutowo broached over lunch the idea of an Indonesian restaurant in New York to several American oil company executives. Before the meal had ended, he had pledges of $25,000 from each of the Americans. Sutowo has already acquired property on Manhattan's East Side. Another of his pet plans is a foundation, to be called Pertamina International, which he plans to use to raise funds for Indonesian cultural and educational projects in the U.S. "We expect donations to come from Americans-people who are friendly to Indonesia." And who might they be? "Oil companies," Sutowo answers promptly...
Besides the practical reason ?st equal enrollment, Dean Pet?nd his committee alternated bet?wo theoretical or philosophical ?s, the pluralism idea that "w? ?re different" and the straigl?d declaration that women...
...lead in a film biography of the late Billie Holiday, "to sing about blues and sadness." Accordingly, she has set herself to storing up bitter experiences that will help her in the role. Her biggest trauma so far came last year in New Jersey, when someone poisoned her pet dogs...
...MASH, he is again deliberately trying to stir his audience. In one vignette, a curmudgeonly lady remarks that upon her death, she wants her 35 dogs "quietly put to sleep." Unfortunately, one of the film's strongest scenes, depicting two bachelor roommates breakfasting with their pet monkey, has been edited...
Died. Colonel Roscoe Turner, 74, early speed flyer and Hollywood stunt man; of bone cancer; in Indianapolis. Turner cut an unforgettable figure striding around town in scarlet helmet, cobalt blue tunic and fawn cavalry pants, with his pet lion Gilmore tugging on a leash. Turner's air stunts were no less electrifying; he performed strut-wrenching maneuvers in such films as Hell's Angels and Flight at Midnight, was a champion at the hair-raising sport of low-level pylon racing at speeds of up to 300 m.p.h., and in 1929 set a Los Angeles-to-New York...