Word: walks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...referendum was another triumphant step on his tightrope walk toward democracy. Spain's leftists, who had urged abstention, coaxed 22.5% of the voters into staying away from the polls. Diehard Franquistas, who viewed the reform as "the antechamber of Communism," were thoroughly repudiated; only 2.6% of the voters cast opposing ballots. "The people," said Christian Democratic Leader Joaquin Ruíz-Giménez, "are not for a return to formulas that have died forever...
...perception, dry wit and uncommon warmth and humanity. "Washington," he told a journalists' club last April, "is a place where the truth is not necessarily the best defense. It surely runs a poor second to the statute of limitations." His job, he observed on another occasion, was "to walk down the middle of the street and shoot windows out on both sides." He seldom missed, but the affection and the accolades that came his way never turned his head. He belonged, he once said, to "the dirty-fingernail set as opposed to the folk heroes...
Margulis' main job was to prepare Hughes' food. But he also acted as his bodyguard and during the last three years, when Hughes was no longer able to walk, lifted him whenever he needed to be moved. It was Margulis who placed the emaciated Howard Hughes aboard the jet ambulance for his last flight?a scene re-created on TIME'S cover by Artist Jim Sharpe...
...femur. Hughes wanted to be operated on in his hotel room, but British Surgeon Walter Robinson insisted that he would perform the operation only in a hospital. Hughes relented?but he demanded to leave the clinic before the fracture had properly mended. Result: he refused even to try to walk again. From then on, his life, which had seemed on the upturn, took a tragic downward plunge. He was taken to the Xanadu Princess Hotel in Freeport, where the Bahamians this time were happy to welcome him. Then, after two years, he was moved again?this time to the pyramidal...
GEORGE FRANCOM, 62, friendly, soft-spoken and devoutly religious. Francom joined Hughes as a driver and guard after attending three colleges and serving in the Air Force Medical Corps. He has four children and spends his spare moments in quiet pursuits: reading books on religion, going on nature-study walks and, when Hughes was in the Bahamas or Acapulco, swimming and snorkeling. More than any of his colleagues, Francom agonized over his employer's welfare. "He wanted to minimize the dope Hughes was taking," Mell Stewart told TIME. "He wanted Hughes to get up and walk, exercise...