Word: wading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Board members are: Helen H. Gilbert '36, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Radcliffe College; Louis W. Cabot '43, a Boston industrialist; John J. Iselin '56, vice president of Harper and Row; Donald Kennedy '52, professor and chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University; and Wade H. McCree Jr., a judge at the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Detroit...
...hirsute zealots plead with gawking conventioneers to bypass the topless-bottomless shows. Outside Atlanta, amid the acid rock, nude bathing and casual lovemaking of a rock festival, a young couple and their friends man two "Jesus tents" for the lost and lonely. In Boise, beaded and bell-bottomed converts wade into the river for a mass baptism; some onlookers are so charmed that they join...
...Jane Wade, one of the pioneer American-born private dealers, started out as a secretary to the late Curt Valentin, one of New York's most successful public dealers. "Do you paint?" asked Valentin when he interviewed her. "No." "Then you're hired." She soon was much more than a secretary, working with Valentin's artists-Calder, Lipchitz, Moore, Arp-on their shows. She became vice president of Marlborough-Gerson Gallery before going into business for herself. In judging the value of a painting or sculpture, she never seeks other opinions, relies exclusively on her own years...
Still, he once led an orchestra, fully clothed and playing When the Saints Go Marching In, on a late-night wade through the swimming pool during a soirée at Southampton, L.I. Now he may party with the likes of Gina Lollobrigida, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Stavros Niarchos (former husband of Ford's daughter Charlotte), and Spanish Prince Carlos-Hugo de Bourbon, whom Ford reportedly calls Jack Daniels. "Frank Sinatra sang at my 21st birthday party," says Ford, "so I've known him for a long time. But he wasn't well known then?he was just a singer...
...strike is doomed to failure, and small wonder. James chases after Linda until there is little time left for political ideas. Finally the cops wade in heavily with tear gas, and the kids, all neatly assembled on the floor in an intricate and improbable circular flower design, are soundly beaten and busted. Although this is the strongest scene in a lackluster film, it will vastly amuse any one who has ever been gassed. The film shows the kids sitting for minutes while great billows of gas waft around them. They cough, but they do not move, a feat that...