Word: whose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cynical detective: "The continuity of revenue is important to state officials. They will not shoot Santa Claus." Resorts' license, in fact, was granted on a temporary basis, at the urging of Governor Brendan Byrne and over the objection of the state's gaming enforcement chief, Robert Martinez, whose agency still has not completed its investigation of the company...
...canoeists to Yugoslavia, educators to Sri Lanka, economists to Zambia, parachutists to Canada, physicians to the Central African Empire. In addition, a team of crack Chinese players left for France to participate in the 22nd European congress of the ancient Chinese game known as Go, a military board game whose objects are territorial conquest and the capture of the opponent's pieces by encirclement...
Bettina Sulzer, 29, whose family is prominent in Switzerland, deals with European clients at Manhattan's prestigious Andre Emmerich art gallery. Says the slender, demure Bettina: "I am into an American group. I don't want to hang around with Europeans as a group. The jet set I certainly don't want to be with." Though her family has always trotted the globe-her grandmother was the last survivor of the Titanic when she died in 1972-she spends her vacations exploring America: this summer she will go to Wyoming, sleeping in a tepee on a ranch...
...very ruthless." On a personal note, she adds: "I can't help being charged here. My senses are heightened and I'm continually on edge. I keep saying, 'Wow! Is this really happening?' " Jacques Murphy, 46, notwithstanding his surname, is a French-descended Quebecois whose family has lived in Canada for five generations. Last September Monsieur Murphy and his wife Pierrette, also 46, loaded their two children and household belongings into two cars for the 1,654-mile trip from Montreal to Hollywood, Fla. Murphy had sold his insurance brokerage business, an office building and their...
...most of the twelve-year marriage, Maugham was hardly a husband. He was most frequently off with Gerald Haxton, a handsome young American he had met during World War I. Full of charm and liquor, in nearly equal measure, Haxton was difficult but necessary, an ideal complement to Maugham, whose lifelong stutter made him shy and withdrawn. In their travels through the Far East, Haxton would spend the night drinking with the local planters and lawyers and then repeat their tales to Willie, who would fashion them into stories. When his lover died of tuberculosis in 1944, Maugham was incurably...