Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WILD, WILD WOMEN" features the notorious lives of Lizzie Borden, Ma Barker, and Carry Nation among others. Those who dutifully did their compulsory summer reading and bought a copy of Ragtime can find a shot of Evelyn Nesbit on the stand at Harry K. Thaw's murder trial and discover what all the fuss was about. Mother's Younger Brother should have stayed in the closet. "Noble Causes" documents political activists from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Angela Davis. This is the only section where the photographs just don't do their subjects justice; of the eighteen women included...
Died. Mikhail Menshikov, 73, congenial Soviet Ambassador to Washington from 1957 to 1962; in Moscow. Menshikov undertook to thaw out the cold war-at least on the diplomatic cocktail circuit-with his informal, urbane style. "Smiling Mike," the nickname his sociability earned him, helped arrange Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the U.S. in 1959 and the Vienna talks between President Kennedy and Khrushchev...
...Harvard stubbornly slights the performing arts in the winter, its rigidity thaws in the summer sun. Both Gray and Kirchner credit that thaw partially to Thomas Crooks, director of the Summer School, under whose aegis has grown a program of arts performance and instruction unlike anything in the winter University...
While the Crimson waited for the Charles to thaw, other crews motored furiously on their warmer waters in preparation for what was supposed to be last Saturday's debacle...
Neither rain nor thaw will stay the bobsled racers from their rounds at speeds up to 70 m.p.h. at Innsbruck. The course, which cost $5 million to construct, is artificially refrigerated. Unfortunately, say the speed freaks who will use it, it is too safe and far too short. West German Baker Wolfgang Zimmerer, who won a gold and a bronze in Sapporo in 1972, complains that the brevity of the course places undue emphasis on quick starts...