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...moment, the tragedy is that Ed Markey missed a stellar chance to join the great American screw-up tradition (if he lost the senate race) or to agitate a glacially staid legislative body (if he won). Now that...
...normally staid Signet Society was shaken by controversy last week over invitations to the club's tres formal Annual Dinner at President Bok's formal residence on 17 Quincy Street...
Such figures have raised questions, and some tempers, in a region that may be richer in protest songs than ready cash. "Our banana and grapefruit economies can't maintain a gun state," declares Egerton M. Richards, publisher of the staid weekly Vincentian. Other pleas have been Seven more plangent. The St. Vincent opposition paper New Times greeted the arrival of a U.S. training team on the island with an impassioned editorial: "We want roads, and an international airport. We want university scholarships abroad. We want food, technology and cash, not guns, please." Some islanders fear that the presence...
Once housed in the Prime Minister's residence, Trudeau continued to cavort in public. He stunned staid pols by sliding down banisters and squiring young women to chic discothèques. After a secret courtship came his 1971 marriage-since failed, amid excessive publicity-to Margaret Sinclair, then...
...down route system serving 19 cities, vs. 49 before. Said William Slattery, 41, the former TWA executive who heads Braniff: "We are looking to direct ourselves in ways that are so basic that they can't be easily countered by any competing airline. We want to project a staid, comfortable, conservative image that is nothing like the freewheeling one Braniff had in the past...