Word: led
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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From wishes, they progressed to comparisons ("A witch's coat is like a mussel's shell"), then to dreams and lies ("I was born nowhere/And I live in a tree."). The next step led to lines beginning "I used to . . ." alternated with "But now I . . ." This especially charmed the kids, perhaps because it reminded them of their own constant physical change. First-Grader Andrea Dockery offered a typical thought...
Disillusionment with the traditional family has led to other alternative lifestyles. In Boston, David, 36, a divorced architect, and Sarah, 29, a researcher for a consulting firm, have an "arrangement"; like an increasing number of other American couples, they live together in David's Cambridge walkup apartment in a "marriage" that has endured solidly for two years without benefit of legal sanction. They sometimes join David's ex-wife and his son, Jonathan, 5, for dinner. Bubbly, attractive Sarah still maintains her own apartment and sometimes spends a few days there...
Doubts about conventional family life have also led to the growth of another phenomenon: the "single-parent family." No longer fearful about complete ostracism from society, many single girls who become pregnant now choose to carry rather than abort their babies and to support them after birth without rushing pell-mell into what might be a disastrous marriage...
Died. Robert Lishman, 67, indefatigable congressional investigator; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. As chief counsel of a House subcommittee, Lishman directed the 1958 inquiry that led to the resignation of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams for accepting gifts from Industrialist Bernard Goldfine; a year later, Lishman was instrumental in exposing rigged TV quiz shows...
QUARTERBACK. Jim Plunkett, Stanford, 6 ft. 3 in., 210 lbs. In the so-called Year of the Quarterback, Plunkett stands taller than any competitor. Winner of the Heisman Trophy by a lopsided vote, he not only led the Indians to their first Rose Bowl bid in 18 years but rolled up 7,887 yds. in total offense, a new career record for major-college quarterbacks. Big and brawny enough to shake off tacklers, Plunkett is a classic pro-style drop-back passer with a strong, accurate arm at all ranges. Rival coaches praise his tactical knowledge, his knack for reading...