Word: seeker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wants to be is Mrs. William Wesley Peters, housewife. That may not seem much to ask, but when the seeker of anonymity is the former Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin, the request takes on unusual proportions. At home in Spring Green, Wis., the bride of four months, whose husband is vice president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, still cannot escape pesky reporters requesting interviews. Mrs. Peters patiently insists that she is not planning to write a third book. "I am planning to do nothing except be a good wife to my husband. That is a full-time...
...year's squeeze on the money supply, and recession-wary consumers have reduced their spending and increased their savings. Still, demands for the limited supply of credit are so great that few moneymen expect mortgage rates to dip much below 8% in the near future. The frustrated home seeker who is waiting for a big drop in interest rates, construction costs or rents is almost sure to be disappointed...
...nuclear attack. Now that trend is fading. The Bekins moving company, which recently pitched to more than 60 big California companies a $10 million facility it plans to build ("the most advanced corporate survival center yet designed." says the brochure), has so far recruited not a single shelter seeker. This may signify that the nuclear nightmare is waning. Or it may mean that Americans have come to accept the notion that there is no real defense against doomsday, if it ever comes...
Rinfret is part Puck, part Polonius. The blend is instantly apparent when, his chubby face rumpling into a smile, he admits that he is more than a bit controversial: "When Pierre stands up to speak, they say, There he goes again, that publicity seeker, that headline hunter.' Perhaps Pierre is flamboyant, perhaps he does make headlines. They forget that Pierre does his homework too, and a lot of the time he's more right than the little gray...
...first note that he ventured. The owlish, dignified former Supreme Court Justice, hoping that he could summon broad Democratic support to challenge Nelson Rockefeller, began his crusade instead with only a narrow primary victory. He defeated Howard Samuels, an attractive upstate plastics millionaire who has been a frequent office seeker, by 45,000 votes in an election for which only 26% of the state's enrolled Democrats roused themselves to vote. Samuels campaigned strenuously in person and spent lavishly on television. After the vote, he pledged to support Goldberg...