Word: wind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans tend to make rather heavier weather of it. Take Marylou Whitney, whose husband Sonny (Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney to you) was a principal backer of Pan American World Airways, Gone With the Wind and enough other ventures to qualify him as a one-man conglomerate. She has five children and five establishments in Lexington, Ky., Saratoga, Manhattan, Manitoba, Canada, and 100,000 acres of the Adirondacks. So Marylou and her two secretaries (one in New York and one in Kentucky) spend a lot of time in a welter of lists, files and details. She likes to dash off notes...
...into the race for the G.O.P. presidential nomination on April 30, precisely 100 days remained until the balloting was to begin in Miami. Last week, despite enthusiastically cheering crowds and some other encouraging signs, there was increasing worry among his followers that Nelson's Hundred Days might well wind up as Napoleon's did-with a Waterloo...
Defense attorneys are seeking a loophole in the 1931 extradition treaty between the U.S. and Britain that bars surrendering persons accused of political crimes. And while the U.S. expects to wind up its case against Ray this week even if an extradition order is granted, appeals could delay his return for weeks...
...wind or the rain...
...first concert was held on the last weekend in March. Fleming then met the Ill Wind, who became his most regular performers, and many other local groups with whom to stock his shows. He's gotten local groups (The Cloud, Quill, The Beacon St. Union, the Ill Wind), two Harvard groups (the Bead Game and Listening), and even visiting national recording groups (Clear Light and the Buddy Guy Blues Band) to play for periods of half an hour or longer --all for free...