Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Undergraduates who hesitate to stop out for fear of seeming too nonconformist might contemplate the example of their professors, who generally take a sabbatical every seven years; Bennington College, which has for four decades required its students to leave campus each winter and work for a term; or former Haverford President John R. Coleman, who once left his office and hired himself out for two months as a dishwasher, garbage collector, and in other unscholarly trades. Even more assuring is the case of Stanford Grad Margaret Doerr. She enrolled in the class of 1931 and finally graduated last August...
...nation's economy is rebounding spectacularly from the ferocious winter that clobbered business early this year. With new jobs being created at a hectic pace, and production, consumer sales and capital spending all quickening, business should move ahead fast through the spring and summer. But it will begin to falter in the autumn and probably remain sluggish for much of 1979. The extent of the slowdown will depend on many, factors, notably Jimmy Carter's success-or failure-in fighting inflation. That is the forecast of TIME'S Board of Economists, which met last week...
Lady Sarah Spencer, willowy, red-haired and 23, spent a skiing holiday with Charles and other friends last winter at a Swiss chalet. She, however, insists they are only chums. In an interview with Woman's Own magazine she gave a rare close-up view of the bachelor Prince. Charles, she disclosed, makes his own dates (not, as some have said, through third parties). He may pick up the woman in his Aston Martin or invite her to meet him at one of the royal residences...
...column this winter after his controversial satirization of Satch Sanders, "I've been called everything, from malicious to a high school sophomore, which really galled me because I didn't even go to high school...
...winter he spends a short time in Antigua, and in the summer he takes a month or so on Cape Cod. The rest of the time is divided between his homes in Manhattan and Washington, where he works at being president of the National Gallery. He employs three pilots to fly his Gulfstream jet so that one will always be available. During the summer he will often swim at Cape Cod in the morning, fly to Saratoga to watch the races and have lunch, and be back on the Cape for another swim in the late afternoon. What nature...