Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...covers later, Newsweek has shattered the sales record of the Singles issue with a cover featuring . . . three pictures of a dejected-looking Richard Nixon. That cover, which ran last week, was promotion for the first installment of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's "The Final Days," an account of Nixon's activities as he fell from power, if not exactly grace. The second and last installment appears this week, and it is much like the first: compelling, gossip-laden, well-assembled, badly-written (if only Gay Talese could have purchased their notes), and, because the information confirms everything people suspected...
FIVE YEARS AGO, The New York Post ran a story under the headline, "Jackie's Aunt Told: Clean Up Mansion." The Post reported that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's aunt and cousin were living "in a garbage-ridden, filthy 28-room house with eight cats, fleas, cobwebs, and no running water" and faced eviction by the Suffolk County Health Department...
Black Jack Bouvier moved into Grey Gardens in between the wars with his wife, his sister Edith and her husband, a lawyer. Then came the Wall Street crash and the Bouvier fortune was smashed. The Bouviers moved out and Edith's husband ran off, leaving her as the sole mistress of the mansion. Jacqueline and Lee Bouvier were brought up there with Edie, who at the time outshone them both--her prospects seemed boundless. But things reversed themselves. Jackie went off to marry Jack Kennedy, Lee became a princess, and Edie was left behind, never quite able to break away...
...rafters of the air-conditioned coliseum in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico as the Classics, Harvard's self-styled "vagabonding basketeers" took to the floor, undaunted by the murmur of a capacity crowd and the steady woosh emanating from the opposite end of the court as the Puerto Rican national team ran through a dunking drill...
...visit even catapulted the Classics into national prominence when the Puerto Rican newspaper E1 Mundo mistakenly reported that they had come within one point of upsetting the national team in the game at Mayaguez. A United Press International picked up the story and sent out a wire dispatch that ran in many of the nation's leading papers the next morning...