Word: seymour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prayers at the Presidential Inauguration are meant to be mildly inspiring, a celebration of national virtues. At President Nixon's Inauguration, the Baptist, Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox prayers all fitted snugly into this tradition, but the Jewish prayer strayed into unfamiliar terrain. Rabbi Seymour Siegel, a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and an ardent Nixon campaign worker, delivered a prayer that is customarily reserved for the presence of kings. Its text: "Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who hast given us of thy glory and flesh and blood...
...Agent 007 to the fictional island of San Monique, where Mr. Big, the first black villain in a Bond movie, runs a heroin-smuggling ring. There Bond-played for the first time by Roger Moore, star of TV's The Saint -meets a telepathic beauty named Solitaire (Jane Seymour), a black double agent (Gloria Hendry) and the usual assortment of outrageous villains, their seemingly indestructible henchmen and an obstacle course of hazards that would have sent even Superman running for his Valium. "There will be more action packed into these two hours than any other Bond film," brags Director...
Three of the eight defendants were alleged to have been major shareholders in Four Seasons, but not, wonder of wonders, among the big losers. In fact, says U.S. Attorney Whitney North Seymour, knowing full well that Four Seasons was worth nowhere near as much as they publicly claimed, these insiders sold off large chunks of their holdings through numbered accounts at Walston. Clark alone was accused of pocketing more than $9,000,000, most of which is believed to be stashed in Europe. Andersen officials promised to "vigorously" defend their employees in the case; Clark and Miller were not talking...
...goes skiing. After a week of instruction, the figure drops to about one in 200. A study by the Canadian Ski Pa trol showed that students have nearly three-quarters of all accidents; house wives account for only 11%. Younger skiers tend to push themselves beyond their capabilities. Dr. Seymour Epstein, a psychologist at the University of Massachusetts, profiled the accident-prone skier: he is more daring, more boastful and more absent-minded on the slopes than...
...wardrobe, paid his chauffeur over $200 a week, had a $60,000 bar mitzvah for his son." Then he heard a story about a man who was swindled by his accountant, and "that triggered something in my mind." After some Funt calls to banks, brokers and the police, Accountant Seymour Goldes was indicted on charges of stealing from his star client the grand sum of $1,285,826. Said Funt, unsmiling: "The guy and I couldn't have been closer...