Word: yearly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter declined to comment on what he called a "sideshow," a devilish reference to William Shawcross's book of that name highly critical of Kissinger. Carter once flung a rubber chicken at one particularly querulous reporter. A gregarious partygoer who loves to sing and dance, Carter last year married Patricia Derian, 50, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, after divorcing his wife of 21 years...
Goodman's knowing explorations of change and its debilitating side effects have made her the sudden sensation of America's editorial pages. First syndicated in 1976, her twice-weekly column now appears in 207 papers, 45 of which have signed on this year. A collection of her pieces, Close to Home (Simon & Schuster; $9.95), was published last month. The book's 109 selections show Goodman at her evenhanded best, a cool stream of sanity flowing through a minefield of public and private quandaries. "The thinking woman's Erma Bombeck," says an editor at the Los Angeles...
Goodman describes herself as "a 38-year-old woman, mother, vegetable gardener, failed jogger and expert on only one subject: the ambivalence of life." Her extended family shares "not only an area code but also a zip code" near her native Boston, and rarely does a week go by when she doesn't see some relation or other. Divorced and the mother of an eleven-year-old daughter, she is at her most eloquent when tackling subjects close to home. "The pleasure of being a parent," she wrote last year, "is the extraordinary experience of having short people...
...become the rule this year, Harvard jumped out to an early lead and never faced a challenge...
Breaststroke sensation David Lundberg made a shambles of his supposed dual with Koji Nishinura, last year's Eastern champion in the 100 and 200 runner-up. Nishimura faded badly after leading midway while Lundberg cruised in at 2:07.7, only slightly off last week's Harvard record setting form...