Word: enthusiastic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan, members of the jet set, movie producers and Japanese businessmen check with Astrologist Pauline Messina before boarding their planes. But most folk who follow their horoscopes in the newspapers or magazines hardly take them seriously. As one enthusiast explains, "It's an institution for buttressing opinions and explaining mishaps. According to the magazine you buy, you can always find a comfortable explanation to soften the blow of anything from infidelity to a bumped fender. If you don't find your answer, just change magazines...
TIME, it turns out, is full of chefs, from Newsmarker Bruce Chapin, who can turn out Julia's supreme de volatile, to Editor Peter Martin, who mixes up popovers and curried eggs for Sunday breakfast. Researcher Betty Suyker, a longtime Child enthusiast who gets credit for first suggesting this week's cover, is considered our best cook. Two years ago, she spent three weeks perfecting her culinary techniques at L'Ecole des Trois Gourmandes, the Paris school which Julia still helps...
Though the average chase can cost a huntsman as much as $28, the low-income enthusiast finds ways to economize. The miners chase the fox on Welsh ponies rather than on horses. A complete hunting outfit, including horse and secondhand saddle, can be bought for as little as $300. The hunts raise money for the chases through bingo games and other events. One club even enables its members to pay their annual fees on a time plan...
...jointly sponsor some local charity drive; almost every night, two groups get to gether for bowling matches or common meetings. In Madison, Wis., for example, the Knights and the Shriners co-sponsored a charity bazaar. In Tacoma, Wash., Columbians and Shriners gathered for what one ecumenical enthusiast called "a real bash." And in Hartford, Conn., the Knights have joined with the Masons and B'nai B'rith to form a brotherhood committee rep resenting a combined membership of 100,000. Says Supreme Knight John W. McDevitt, national head of the Catholic organization: "It's high time...
Blue-eyed Pamela Lee Wilkening, 20, a racing-car enthusiast, brought a touch of zany humor to the group, yet was described by a hospital friend as "the sweetest girl you'd ever want to know." When she applied for training she wrote: "I have always wanted to be a nurse. I never liked to see people suffer." There were, finally, three Philippine exchange student nurses who had moved in only two months earlier - Merlita Gargullo, 22, who had brought with her from Manila a pair of native clacking poles with which she performed a "bamboo dance" at parties...