Word: skying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...memorial projects have top priority. Two months ago, she made a rare public appearance to attend the unveiling of a commemorative bust of Bobby at the Justice Department. Last month she traveled to New Hampshire's Waterville Valley ski resort for the World Cup competition, which was dedicated to Bobby. She has worked diligently at home on a nationwide series of fund-raising dinners organized to pay off the $3,500,000 debt remaining from Bobby's presidential campaign...
...Kennedy families first came together around 1940, when the children met at schools. Thereafter, their lives progressively intertwined, as they dated one another, visited back and forth, and went on outings together. Seventeen-year-old Ethel and 20-year-old Bobby met in 1945, at Mont Tremblant, a Canadian ski resort near Montreal. They liked each other ("He was so handsome!" Ethel recalls) and began to date, until Bobby turned his attentions to Ethel's quiet, bookish sister Pat. This lasted a few months by most accounts, but to Ethel it seemed "two years at least." Finally Pat developed other...
...astonishing number of Baker's pages-and the book's rich lode of rarely seen illustrations-document the journeys Hemingway undertook to various test sites of courage: high school football in Oak Park, 111., three wars, hunting grounds from Idaho to Africa, boxing and bull rings, ski slopes, four marriage beds...
...Mike Wallace (aggressive interviews, hard-hitting reporting, biting wit). Yet aside from two informative stories on inequities in the U.S. welfare system and homosexuality in a state prison, 60 Minutes has drawn most of its items from the world of pop sociology. Lighthearted bits have been aired on the ski boom, shoplifting and the esthetics of ugliness. One piece on Rock Singer Janis Joplin might better have been on the Ed Sullivan Show. Seemingly for lack of imagination, the CBS magazine has built many of its more serious stories around interviewing celebrities. Too often, television inquisitors seem content with...
NORA, when she wasn't silently helping with the packing, sat on the other side of the fireplace, smoking and gazing. Tommy was going to take the first load of stuff on the ski-doo up to the cars. He asked Nora which trunks were ready. She pointed to some boxes which contained props. Tommy picked them up and started out the door. Nora smiled into space and said, "The world...