Word: staying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sheriff Alex Watkins, who told them the money came from someone connected with Thevis. Watkins, who says Thevis came "highly recommended" by his attorneys as an "honor roll prisoner," claimed that the money for the two deputies was given because they had been "nice" to Thevis during a brief stay in the jail last January...
...Momo and Madame Rosa they are as superficial as Madame Nadine's love for the boy. What they boil down to is a glue that binds. Both the woman and the boy are members of persecuted minorities, alone, haunted by their pasts and trapped as much by wanting to stay in their surroundings as by their material inability to escape. It is irrelevant, as far as their relationship goes, that, for instance, one is Jewish and the other Arab. Because it is, director Moshe Mizrahi makes the point that appearances really are no more than superficial. It is only...
...custom of inviting everyone to the palace table goes back to King Abdul Aziz," said the Prince during dinner. "It's not that the people lack food. Some of them eat better at home than they do here. But they come to discuss their personal problems, and they stay for dinner. Anyone in the kingdom is welcome to this table, no matter what his status. If they were all bankers or army generals, it would be assumed they were invited because of their position. But these are simple people. Anyone, anyone can come here, and that gives them confidence...
...Wayne L.," as they call former Representative Wayne Hays in Ohio, just won't stay down on his farm. Having resigned from Congress in 1976 because of a scandal over his secretary, Elizabeth Ray, Hays is now running for the Ohio house of representatives. Is it a comedown to be aiming for Columbus instead of Washington? Not at all, says Hays, drawing a grand historical analogy: "Look at John Quincy Adams-he was defeated for his second term as President and then proceeded to serve in the House of Representatives until the day he died...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. knows tough competition when he sees it: "If he goes into politics, I stay out," he announced, eying David Eisenhower. The two got together in Manhattan at the invitation of a new magazine, Your Place, which has published an interview with each of them. Both Robert, 24, and David, 30, admit that coming from prominent political families poses problems. Robert, a student at the London School of Economics, recalls the "white rage" he felt when he was a Harvard undergraduate and a lecturer described J.F.K. as "macho, a Harvard jocko type." But overall, he concedes that...