Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...episode that shook the high-altitude, high-living ski resort occurred shortly after 5 p.m. on a bright Sunday. After spending a couple of hours on the slopes and several more reportedly drinking with some male companions at a popular watering hole, Longet returned to Sabich's house. Soon afterward, she phoned the Aspen Valley Hospital to report that there had been a shooting. Sheriffs officers, police and ambulance attendants found Sabich lying in the master bathroom, next to a sunken tub, mortally wounded by a single .22-cal. bullet in the abdomen. As Aspen Valley...
...brittle, fragile woman, she isolated herself, governing through a small clique of inept and often corrupt advisers. Among them was Astrologer-Mystic José López Rega, a kind of Pampas Rasputin whose power antagonized the military and whose conservative economic ideas upset labor. After popular demonstrations forced López Rega to quit last July, Isabel became a near recluse. At her infrequent public appearances, she was visibly nervous, often tearful and sometimes nearly hysterical. Last fall, claiming failing health, she took a leave to retreat to the hills of Córdoba to regain her strength. Many...
...final battles before the eclipse of British military prowess by the rise of the superpowers. As British Military Historian Michael Howard has written, "It is doubtful whether he will be regarded by posterity as one of the great captains of history." But in the popular mind, the hero of El Alamein probably has a secure place alongside, if not Alexander and Napoleon, then at least Marlborough and Wellington, which even Monty might agree is acceptable soldier's company...
...major sociological study issued last week, however, claims that such liberalizing measures are in fact highly popular. Instead, the study puts the blame for the U.S. church's decline squarely on Pope Paul's 1968 encyclical against "artificial" birth control. Disillusion over the encyclical, in fact, may have cost the American church more than $1 billion a year in contributions. That contention is part of a book by Andrew M. Greeley, William C. McCready and Kathleen McCourt: Catholic Schools in a Declining Church (Sheed & Ward, 483 pages; $15). In it Father Greeley, 48, a sociologist and acidulous Catholic...
...than depravity. Last month police raided eleven midtown Manhattan bookstores, confiscating material on bestiality and sex with children. The next day the stores were open for business as usual, though the offending material had disappeared?temporarily. Hobbled by cumbersome legal procedures, picayune fines for offenders and a lack of popular support, New York's antiporn effort so far has had little effect. Says Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau...