Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aluminum mast unstepped, her Honduras mahogany hull swathed in protective padding, Australia's sleek, 12-meter challenger for the America's Cup was ready last week for her voyage to the U.S.-as deck cargo aboard the freighter City of Sydney. For two months, Gretel (pronounced Great-ul) had been testing herself against her American trial horse, Vim, and stories about her speed were flying like loose sheets in a gale. Though the Aussies carefully tut-tutted the report, one story had it that Gretel had beaten Vim by 16 minutes over a 16-mile course-a fantastic...
...Loaded." One of the first movie actors to make a million dollars, Chaplin is more than ever a rich man. "He's loaded," says his son Sydney appraisingly...
...would like to go back to show the country to the children." But even if he could renew his visitor's permit (which he turned in nine years ago when the Justice Department threatened an investigation), he would do better to stay where he is, says his son Sydney, adding: "What would he do? Go on the Ed Sullivan Show...
...Chaplin has two additional sons by his second marriage-both actors. Charles Jr., 36, was married last month to Marta Brown, a nurse. Sydney, also 36, and nine months two days younger than Charles Jr., is married to French Dancer Noelle Adam. Although they seldom saw their father until they were adults, both Sydney and Charles Jr. are genuinely fond of him, and make trips to Europe...
...Slavery. Southern writers cultivated their own myth as assiduously as Northerners. Theirs was a knightly ideal of chivalry lifted from the novels of Sir Walter Scott. Ignoring the squalor in the real South, they populated fictitious plantations with gorgeous women and jolly slaves. Romantic hyperbole was commonplace. Wrote Poet Sydney Lanier to his wife after 9½ years of marriage: "My heart's Heartsease, My sweet Too-sweet, if I could wrap thee in a calyx of tender words still would they seem but like the prickly husk in respect of thee, thou Rose, within." Southerners spun elaborate apologias...