Word: rays
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This week's cover story on Mark Spitz, America's secret weapon for reversing the gold flow, goes well beyond his performance at the Olympic Games. Associate Editor Ray Kennedy obtained a rare interview with Spitz that provides glimpses of the athlete's personality and his recollection of a religious slur at the 1968 Olympics. Champions, it turns out, are highly resilient people...
...politician in Nixon was especially flattered by the turnout of some 400 stage, screen and television celebrities for a party he and the First Lady gave at their San Clemente home. They included such oldtime stars as John Wayne, Jack Benny, George Jessel, James Stewart, Joan Blondell, Ray Bolger, Jimmy Durante and Lawrence Welk, as well as some Democratic turncoats: Frank Sinatra, Jim Brown, Charlton Heston and George Hamilton. (Remember George and Lynda Bird?) The President was in high spirits, chatting amiably and expressing his gratitude "for what you, the people of Hollywood, have done for America and have done...
...down women. ("She's a human dynamo-charging everything." "Many a gal has made it to the top because her dress didn't.") This year, however, the ladies get a slightly better shake. Acting on a letter from a Maryland woman who complained about male chauvinism. Editor Ray Geiger has included in the 1973 edition a two-page article stressing women's intellectual equality and right to equal opportunities. Admits Geiger: "The belief that 'it's a man's world' quite evidently becomes less valid with every passing day and year...
...less peaceful purposes. It provides, for example, the guiding light for the Air Force's extremely accurate "smart bombs" (TIME, June 5). Even more ominous, the laser may be on its way toward becoming a military weapon that until now has existed only in fiction: the death ray...
...days of Cathy Leroy and Michele Ray, girl reporters in Viet Nam seemed to be trying to out-tough Hemingway. Frances FitzGerald's voice is low and her style quiet, though she is known as Frankie. There is even a trace of the debutante she once was in the way her eyes dilate when she wants to emphasize a point. That observation would irritate her. Days at the fashionable Foxcroft School now seem "too dreadful to talk about." Radcliffe was better-"one learned to think in long phrases." She graduated in 1962 with a magna in history, writing...