Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slicing into three male bystanders and badly injuring a fourth, an Italian visitor, who later died. Some of the blades hit the concrete roof and disintegrated, pieces striking people on the walkway; ten were injured. Part of a blade plummeted to the sidewalk about two blocks away, killing a woman pedestrian. The toll: five dead, 13 injured...
...biggest worry of the voters was whether or not the Likud state of mind might provoke another war with the Arabs. Said one woman, who lost a brother in the Six-Day War and her husband in the October War: "All I can see is a long line of husbands whose wives will become widows." Warned an alarmed trade-union leader: "The Likud will force us into another war. Begin relies on God, but we will have to rely on our divisions. The workers will suffer, and a new left will rise from the ruins...
Some enchanted evening, they always said, Mary Martin and Ethel Merman would appear together in a two-woman show on Broadway. And so it finally happened in a one-night benefit replete with hoops and hoopla and costumes from South Pacific, Gypsy and, of course, Hello, Dolly! Briefly joining the high jinks onstage were the likes of Yul Brynner, Burgess Meredith, Joel Grey and Geoffrey Holder-who kicked up their heels in an all-male chorus line. When it was over, Ethel, 68, sighed, "Fm on Cloud Nine," and Mary. 63, was still savoring the roars of the audience...
...ABANDONED WOMAN by RICHARD CONDON 317 pages. Dial...
...have. In embroidering upon the stormy marriage between the Prince of Wales (later George IV) and Caro line of Brunswick, Novelist Richard Condon takes this defense and stands it on its head. If things did not happen to the real people involved as they are described in The Abandoned Woman, so much the better for them...