Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late November 1963, a reclusive 13-year-old boy named Artie Bremer sat transfixed before the TV screen watching the coverage of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Suddenly there on the screen was Jack Ruby busting through a ring of bodyguards to shoot down Lee Harvey Oswald in cold blood. "I remember us watching that on TV together," recalls the boy's father, William Bremer. "Art was impressed with it. Could that have anything to do with what happened...
...landscape. Some of the humor remains. One painting looks like an orthodox New York abstraction, with a plane of blue punctuated by a red geometric circle; not until you consult the catalogue do you find that it is a view from above a swimming pool, with a rubber ring floating on the surface. But in general, Hockney's new scenes are as visually straightforward as anyone might wish. So where does their odd presence come from...
...Ford Enterprises rolled into the Boston Garden not too long ago and brought back some home-town favorites: the infamous Caruso, the Black Demon, Little Brutus and his midget tag-team,' and of course Bruno Sammartino. While Caruso (left) amused the crowd with his rope-chokes and ring-side histrionics and Manuel Soto, a local darling, summarily stomped the Black Demon (right), everyone waited for the big match between Sammartino and Turo Tanaka, "Professor of Jujitsu...
...pinpointed Muskie in a cover story more than a year earlier as "the man to beat." A TIME election survey in the Feb. 7 issue had Muskie leading in every region except the South and concluded: "He looks increasingly like the man who will grab the brass ring at Miami Beach." Other publications and pundits said roughly the same thing...
Large state mental institutions are still around. Several ring the Boston metropolitan area: Boston State Hospital, Westboro State Hospital, Metropolitan State Hospital and Bridgewater State Hospital. After 125 years of development, they still fail miserably to meet the needs of their patients. Westboro, for example, has only four doctors for approximately one thousand patients. Since 1955, though, a desperately needed alternative to despair without help or stagnation in a mental institution has developed for people who cannot pay for private therapy: networks of community mental health programs...