Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mountain Retreat. Suntanned and crewcut, Maytag is a trim (175 Ibs.) six-footer with a calm, modulated voice and a quiet, determined air. He often works Saturdays, hates to give speeches (though he does), devotes most of his time to financial matters. A keen sportsman, he leaves his beachside house near Miami whenever possible for a 160-acre mountain retreat in Wyoming, where he is usually joined by his second wife and five children (four of them from her previous marriage; Maytag's first wife has the three children from the first Maytag marriage). A self-styled "free enterpriser...
...aspect of the holiday was bitterly marked by the Black Sash Organization, a handful of courageous white matrons, who oppose apartheid. Said their spokesman: "Family Day becomes a farce when so many of our African families are disrupted." Wearing their customary black sashes, members of the group went into retreat, sat in bare rooms on hard chairs for 24 hours of complete silence, eating only bread and water...
...birthday. After ice cream and a large birthday cake (with only one candle), Happy gave her husband a blue sailing shirt and two cashmere sweaters, and the kids gave their new stepfather birthday cards. Then for six days the New York Governor relaxed in the privacy of his vacation retreat and indulged an irresistible yen for Maine lobster-at almost every meal except breakfast...
Certain Difficulties. The effect on Canada's stock markets next day was shattering. As prices plummeted, Gordon held a hasty series of conferences, then beat a full retreat. At 2:35 p.m., 55 minutes before the Montreal and Toronto stock exchanges closed, Gordon appeared in the Commons, announced that because of "certain administrative difficulties" he was withdrawing the 30% takeover tax from the budget. In the final moments after his announcement, the stock markets staged a spectacular rally. Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd., which had dropped from 30 to 26¾ by 2:30 p.m., soared...
...Where the Boys Are, Lisa), and made $50,000 playing a jet-paced stewardess in her most recent movie, Come Fly With Me. But for blonde Dolores Hart, 24, fame and flight pay were not enough. Each year since 1958, she has spent four weeks at a Roman Catholic retreat. Last week, making the break complete, Dolores slipped away from the movie colony to enter Regina Laudis Monastery in Bethlehem, Conn., as a postulant. Said the nun-to-be: "I am not leaving anyone or anything behind. I am taking with me a full and grateful heart...