Word: snow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...master of the grandiloquent opening and the bumbling close ("May the sun never set on this great land, unless it comes up again next morning"). He has a letch for operatic sopranos and a strange hatred of birds, and he is comically unsteady on his snow white charger-especially when he tries to make it rear in the grand manner. One suspects Altman has based his Buffalo Bill on movie stars he has known-people whose celebrity has cut them off from the reality that the rest of us share, as well as from their earlier selves, the selves that...
Every morning for the past three months, Seychelles islanders tuning in the country's only radio station have heard an imposing roll of kettledrums and the recitation of a proud though singularly infelicitous piece of doggerel: "Independence is a sheet of virgin snow/ On which our footsteps will surely show...
...curious lines about snow in the Seychelles were written by the former crown colony's new President, James R. Mancham, 36. A handsome, black-bearded lawyer who revels in his reputation as a playboy, Mancham is also a shrewd politician. He helped negotiate a $20 million loan from Britain. which also granted the new micro-nation title to Aldabra, a world-renowned tropical bird sanctuary, and to two other islands. The Seychelles are halfway between Africa and Asia, and Mancham is adamant about keeping the Indian Ocean "a peaceful lake." He has assured United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim...
...daily grind itself can be grueling: over snow-covered Rocky Mountain passes, through dusty Kansas cornfields and up testing Appalachian ascents. Yet only 5% of the 4,300 people who have hit the trail since it opened May 14 have dropped out before finishing at least one of the designated 900-mile segments. Last week the first groups of cyclists going coast-to-coast passed each other at Pueblo, Colo...
...late, at 28. his wife, lovely, musical Martha Wayles Skelton, was the widow of his college friend Bathurst Skelton. According to the family story ?he himself is reticent about his private life?Jefferson apparently misjudged the traveling time and arrived with his new bride at Monticello in the snow late one night. Only a one-room building for his use was completed at the tune, and the servants had all gone to bed, leaving no fires burning. Despite that inauspicious beginning, the Jeffersons appear unusually contented. They have one daughter, Martha, 4 (a second daughter died this year...