Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State Department will certainly welcome Juan Carlos' accession, since it means a continuation of Franco's friendly policy toward America. The Prince's first act last week as temporary chief of state was to sign a joint U.S.-Spanish declaration of principles on military cooperation negotiated under Franco. It calls for "appropriate measures" for mutual defense in case of an attack on either nation...
...Utopia. Last week Dame Sibyl's grandson and heir, Michael Beaumont, 46, took leave from his job as a design engineer of guided missiles at the British Aircraft Corp. and prepared to move into the Seigneurie, the manor house of Sark. The 22nd Seigneur of Sark showed every sign of preserving his grandmother's feudal Utopia. "We want to keep the island quiet and peaceful," he asserted. "I believe the life of a seigneur to be infinitely more rewarding than making weapons...
...stature that makes a pencil appear mesomorphic, Henning has proved that the magic boom is bankable-his show grosses some $60,000 per week. At 17, too young to perform in the nightclubs of his native Winnipeg, he flew to Barbados, where he acquired a motorcycle and a sign: MAGICIAN. HAVE RABBIT, WILL TRAVEL. He roamed the island, picking up work as he went. Seven years later, after earning a degree in psychology, he convinced the Canada Council that magic was an art form in need of further investigation. The council, which provides governmental funding for the arts, bankrolled...
...they can believe in. Magic, with its cheerful promise of mountebankery, offers a kind of low comic relief. An audience that is fooled invariably laughs, delighted that its attention has been misdirected. To Magician-Historian Robert Lund, it is "a rebellion against science." To James Randi, it is "a sign that our society is still healthy. When people stop being enthralled by a magician who can make a lady vanish, it will mean that the world has lost its most precious possession: its sense of wonder...
...worked furiously to turn himself into a self-made common man. "Bard of the people" might be the title he has aspired to for 50 years, like Vachel Lindsay and Carl Sandburg before him. But Beecher is no folk charlatan. He has paid his dues. When he refused to sign a loyalty oath during the McCarthy era, he was fired from the faculty of San Francisco State College. The city of Birmingham, which declared May 1 John Beecher Day, was not so pleased with its native son ten years ago when, as a thoroughly participatory journalist, he was celebrating Martin...