Word: talking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bond hearing are actually fans of Davis' and have followed his trials for two years. Many are bleached blondes, with heavy makeup and flashy jewelry, resembling Priscilla or Davis' girlfriend, Karen Master. They chew gum and file their nails during the proceedings. During the recesses, they talk of their fondness for the various participants, especially the darkly handsome Davis, as if they were favorite characters on a television soap opera. Says one spectator, Mrs. Texas Methven, a middle-aged retired secretary: "I'm praying for him. He's a good businessman and looks nice...
...eight U.S. Congressmen and their aides, headed by Mississippi Democrat Gillespie V. ("Sonny") Montgomery. The Americans were on a six-day tour of Viet Nam and Laos, investigating the fate of 340 U.S. servicemen still listed officially as missing in action during the Viet Nam War.* At the first talk between Vietnamese officials and Montgomery's contingent, Deputy Foreign Minister Phan Hien announced that the bodies of eleven of the M.I.A.s had been recovered, and at week's end the remains were ferried home. Montgomery concluded from his conversations that the Vietnamese were making a "sincere effort" to cooperate. Said...
They arrive on campus nervous but excited. An upperclassman shows them to their dorms. Stumbling across the quad, maps under their noses, they grope their way to classrooms in modern buildings. They listen attentively as professors talk about opportunity. At night they gather in a big dining hall. A typical college orientation? Not quite. The participants are middle-aged?parents being prepped on what college holds for their children...
...Would you please go over that again?this time in English?" The show's preoccupation is money and how to make it. As Rukeyser told TIME Washington Correspondent George Taber, "Talk exclusively about economics, and people are bored to death. But talk to them about money, and watch their eyes light...
...Introductory meeting for theater types at the Loeb Drama Center. The president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, a really nice guy, will give a little talk and a tour around this beautiful facility. Kind of fun, if only to gawk at the self-confessed theater types on campus...