Word: rift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pixie Palladino. Last fall, Hicks and Palladino moved and shook together to form an initialed organization for busing foes, calling it ROAR, or Restore Our Alienated Rights, and selecting as its symbol a lion with one paw clamped to the head of a school bus. This year, however, a rift has opened in the organization and the two are engaged in a real cat fight, Palladino pulling about a quarter of their joint constituency away to start a new group, United ROAR. The factionalism may explain much of the calm this fall; certainly Palladino has lost much of her native...
...from running for re-election in 1978. Cornelia is considered a possible prospect to try to succeed him, just as Wallace's first wife, Lurleen, followed him as Governor in 1967 (she died of cancer 17 months after taking office). If the taping episode indicates a wide rift between the Wallaces, Cornelia would be seriously damaged politically; without George's all-out support, she could hardly hope to win. But Wallace promised last week that if Cornelia does run, he "would be as strong for her as I was for my first wife...
...below the surface things have been changing with increasing rapidity, as the overall trend to the left and the growing rift between left and right in these elections demonstrates. The DC-headed coalitions of the "centro-sinistra" (center-left)--including the Christian Democrats and one or more of the smaller parties (Socialist, Social Democratic, or Republican)--have shown themselves increasingly unable to cope with Italy's economic problems over the past few years. The rapid post-war industrialization of the country and the accompanying rise in the standard of living seem, in retrospect, to have peaked in 1969. Since then...
...must not let daylight in upon magic." Royal houses, which once saw outside light only when their occupants were wedded, beheaded, deported or deposed, today are almost constantly floodlit. Queen Elizabeth's younger sister Margaret is squired by a swinger 17 years her junior, and the princess's rift with Photographer-Husband-Antony-Armstrong-Jones-the-Earl-of-Snowdon reigns supreme on front pages and TV for days on end. Princess Anne, 25, the Queen's second child and a contender for Britain's Olympic equestrian team, cracks a vertebra in a fall from her horse and makes news bulletins...
...plainly surprised-and embarrassed. The Soviet press retorted weakly that Sadat's move was meaningless because the treaty was "paralyzed" in any case. There was no mention of the fact that only last month at the 25th Party Congress, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev had dismissed rumors of rift and pledged to strengthen Soviet-Egyptian relations. The U.S. was quietly delighted by Moscow's discomfort, especially because Cairo editorials likened the Soviet failure to honor the treaty to an old debacle in Egyptian-U.S. relations: the refusal by John Foster Dulles two decades ago to arm Egypt...