Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minority. What Catholics there were in town were mostly Irish. The situation undoubtedly sharpened his eye for differences. The most different man in town was his own father. "A supreme individual," recalls Talese, "a man with a mustache in a town where there were no mustaches, dressed in flamboyant tweed suits that he designed himself." Talese is also an elegant dresser and a hard-working individualist...
...thing of awe, the Catholic parish pastor-a force as redoubtable and durable as a Southern Democrat in the U.S. Senate. He was a marvelous blend of Barry Fitzgerald and Boss Tweed: irascible conscience of the stingy, puckish doer of good deeds among the neighborhood's fallen. He was absolute ruler of his realm, certain that parishioners who might doubt the Pope's infallibility would never for a minute dare question...
...commercial aviation. But last week, in the inexplicable pattern that seems to govern such disasters, two airliners went down, one on each coast, killing a total of 78 persons. Twenty-eight of them died when an Allegheny Airlines twin jet crashed in a swamp near Connecticut's Tweed-New Haven Airport. Another 50 were killed in the collision of a Hughes Air West DC-9 and a Navy F-4 Phantom jet over California's San Gabriel Mountains...
Both crashes raised ominous and specific questions. Two years ago, the Air Line Pilots Association called Tweed-New Haven Airport one of the nation's ten most dangerous, and last week the airport manager said that the crash would not have occurred if the airport had been equipped with an instrument-landing system. In California, some witnesses said that the Phantom, from the El Toro Marine Air Station, had been making barrel rolls-stunt flying-before it collided with the airliner, which was on its correct path from Los Angeles International Airport. It remains for the sole survivor...
Senior Yearbooks from the early days of the Pusey era frequently contain pictures of the new president, his hair not yet gray, and often wearing a casual looking sweater under his tweed jacket, sipping sherry with undergraduates. In those days, he was still the hero of American academics, the man who had fought the right wing demon and defeated him. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences commended him in an unusual resolution, and he was featured on an Omnibus program. His door was still open to the press, which heaped him with praise...