Word: walks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where you finish/ And you've finished on top"). Leonard Bernstein conducted the National Symphony Orchestra in his composition If Ever Man Were Loved by Wife, which he dedicated to Rosalynn. James Dickey recited a new poem, describing Carter as a mythic hero drawing strength from a walk in the Plains countryside on a summer's night. Sample lines: "Lord, let me shake/ With purpose. Wild hope can always spring/ From tended strength. Everything is in that...
...office on the Bible my mother gave me a few years ago, opened to a timeless admonition from the ancient prophet Micah: "He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" [Micah...
...snow to reach food. Stores were running out of rock salt to melt ice, but elderly women found a substitute to steady their steps on sidewalks: a scattering of kitty litter. In Aston Township, Pa., Ned Oppelt, 24, decided that it was too cold to risk a long walk home from a party, crawled into a Laundromat's king-sized clothes dryer-still cozy and warm from the day's tumbling -and slept the night through. Fortunately, no early arrival slammed the door or turned on the heat...
...session he may stop him on the street to rehash it. His office is on Fifth Avenue, but his favorite headquarters is Elaine's Restaurant, Manhattan's top celebrity hangout. He often winds up his 15-hour days-usually early in the morning-at his fourth-floor walk-up bachelor's pad on Manhattan's East Side with a diet cola and a Stouffer's short-ribs-of-beef dinner. He cooks four at a time and eats them cold out of the refrigerator...
Zarem's inspiration goes back to his childhood in Georgia. Says he: "My life was the movies. I used to walk around Savannah and fantasize that it was Beverly Hills." He studied political science at Yale and started his career in New York as a concert booking agent. Eventually he signed on with Rogers & Cowan, the show-business p.r. firm, spending six years boosting such entertainers as Ann-Margret, Dustin Hoffman and Dyan Cannon. "I wanted to be an actor," he confesses. "But I just never thought of myself as being attractive...