Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they reached Washington to begin celebrating. As the Peanut Special rolled toward Savannah past naked cotton-and cornfields and snow-crowned pine and pecan groves, they partied with a vengeance-almost as if they were reversing General William Tecumseh Sherman's earlier trek across the South. Said Sam Simpson, a grocer from Barnesville, Ga., bedecked with a peanut lei and two peanut bracelets: "My granddaddy told me that hell would freeze over before we'd have a Southerner as President. Well, I just heard that Washington is frozen." Joseph Wiley Reid, who described himself as a "cousin...
...Being an astronaut takes concentration and patience, and it can be tedious-just like football,"says O.J. Simpson, 29, who ought to know. The star running back of the Buffalo Bills has hung up his cleats for a while to play the space mate of Sam Waterston and James Brolin in Capricorn One, a movie about a manned flight to Mars. "I could never be a real astronaut and sit in that tiny capsule for days," declares the Juice. "I have too much energy." He likes acting though, and plans to try it full time when he retires from...
...comes Super Bowl XI, eleven in the Vulgate, and the distinctions between sports and show business approach invisibility. The networks underwrite both on the same artistic basis. How do they draw? What is the cost per 1,000 to the advertisers? Athletes and actors are interchangeable on commercials. O.J. Simpson earns $1 million for telling us what car to rent; Rex Harrison earns $ 1 million for telling us what car to buy. Our old preoccupation with what Clark Gable was paid at Metro has been replaced by speculation on Francis Tarkenton's net worth. Most significant, where the athlete...
...Amos as Kinte in middle age, and Ben Vereen as his grandson. Kinte as a teenager will be portrayed by LeVar Burton, 19, a U.S.C. sophomore and acting novice. To give the somber story line additional star power, such big names as Lorne Greene, Lloyd Bridges, Chuck Connors, O.J. Simpson, Leslie Uggams and Doug McClure will appear in small roles...
...Side of Chicago. He remained in Paris after fighting in World War I, became editor of the French Vogue, then set up the Mainbocher salon in 1930. Among his innovations were the introduction of short evening dresses and of decorated cardigan sweaters. Mainbocher's creations graced Wallis Warfield Simpson at her marriage to the Duke of Windsor, as well as millions of WAVES and Girl Scouts, whose uniforms he fashioned...