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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other protesters were arrested and jailed in Delano, Minn. They were charged with trespassing on the right of way of a 427-mile high-voltage power line long opposed by many farmers and environmentalists. When word of Reed's arrest was flashed to a shocked Soviet public, the news agency Tass dispatched a special correspondent to cover the trial...
...could not be paid on time. Tempers were frayed, and Donner and Spengler stopped speaking to each other. With the film in the can and a potential fortune in sight, the old bonds have been renewed. Donner, for his part, is only afraid that there has been too much public buildup. Says he: "It's like a comedian getting up before a houseful of other comedians and saying I'm going to tell you the funniest joke in the world...
After World War I, public morals and private manners deteriorated. "Day by day," one writer sobbed, "the art of living withers and fades, leaving us to face existence, unadorned, in all its nakedness." Still, the appetite for the Correct Thing remained. In the years...
...late Amy Vanderbilt, a distant cousin of the Commodore and a sensibly moderate arbiter of etiquette who eschewed the surpassing hoity-toity of Emily Post for a comfortably "modern" point of view, originally published her manners book in 1952, later revised it several times. Tish Baldrige, Manhattan public relations executive and once social secretary to Jacqueline Kennedy in the White House, has spent almost three years making further revisions and additions...
...Baldrige. She has been charging full blast most of her life. She approaches manners from the perspective of a working woman who did not marry until she was 35, a mother of two, an executive feminist who wears black dresses and pearls, and head of her own Manhattan public relations firm, Letitia Baldrige Enterprises, Inc. At 51 she serves on the board of directors of three companies (the New York Bank for Savings, Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., and Outlet Co. of Providence) and writes a weekly column, "Contemporary Living," which is syndicated in some 40 newspapers by the Los Angeles...