Word: santo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...departs from this upper-class play pattern when he stops at the colossal illuminated sign of the Olympic Studio and Spa, featuring Joe Santo, Mr. Alabama. The studio, an upholstered gym, does a good business jiggling lard off businessmen, but Blake has no interest in that. What shakes his unsuspecting soul is the weight room, the preserve of the body builders-grotesque, protein-stuffed Narcissuses, men intent on becoming planets...
Divorced. F. (for Francis) Lee Bailey, 38, flamboyant criminal lawyer whose clients have included Albert ("the Boston Strangler") DeSalvo, Dr. Sam Sheppard and Captain Ernest Medina; and Froma Victoria Bailey; on grounds of incompatibility ("He was too busy with his work"); after nine years of marriage, one child; in Santo Domingo...
Divorced. George C. Scott, 44, the gifted, moody actor who last year declined an Oscar for his role in Patton (TIME cover, March 22); and Colleen Dewhurst, 47, Broadway star; on grounds of incompatibility; after nine years of marriage and one previous divorce from each other, two children; in Santo Domingo...
...troops whose presence had protected black de facto enfranchisement, blacks continued to be loyal to the Republican party. Although this loyalty was decidedly more advantageous to the Republicans than it was to blacks, the arrangement was not without token compensations. Beginning with Grant, who appointed Frederick Douglass commissioner to Santo Domingo and later minister to Haiti, black Republicans were appointed to significant Federal posts. Even after Reconstruction, they secured patronage jobs like collector of internal revenue or customs duties for a given city, local consular agent or postmaster, or register of the Federal Treasury...
...part of a Portuguese naval captain, Diogo Cão, who sailed into the mouth of the river in 1482. In Kikongo, the local language, it was called the Mzadi, which means, naturally, "big water." The mangled word survived the centuries in the name of a town, Santo Antonio do Zaire, on the Angola side of the river, where Portugal still maintains a colonial government by force of arms...