Word: priscilla
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ELVIS PRESLEY AND PRISCILLA BEAULIEU He was 24; she was 14 But: they didn't have sex or get married for eight years...
Also elected last night were Michael E.Thakur '01 as vice president, Lee M. Hampton '01 as treasurer, Priscilla Chan '01 and Charity D. Shumway '01 as programming chairs, Andrew Park '01 and Aalap A. Mahadevia '03 as fundraising chairs, and Goldy M. Peterson '01 as events coordinator...
...massacre, the party could not muster the votes to regulate gun sales in America. When the immediate political dust settles and the gun control issue is revived in campaign 2000, "nobody will remember the fine points of why this legislation went down to defeat," says TIME assistant managing editor Priscilla Painton. They will remember that it did during a Republican watch. If properly handled by the Democrats, whose take so far on the public pulse has been keen, "the defeat of gun controls could make and save Al Gore?s presidential campaign," says Painton. He is the one who very...
Tony Hiss, 58, still occupies the Greenwich Village apartment where he lived as a child with Alger and Priscilla Hiss. He calls it a "time funnel," a point of metaphysical access connecting present and past. Tony worked for years writing unsigned Talk of the Town pieces for the New Yorker. He tells Alger's story as a kind of cold war fairy tale, colored by the moods of our age of therapy: Once upon a time, a boy's idealistic young father was set upon by an ogre who hid under the bridge, Whittaker Chambers (fat, neurotic, with bad teeth...
...real world," writes Hiss, "there is no way to squeeze together in one person the translucent father I got to know and the monstrous Alger that Chambers talked and wrote about." Hiss makes his case by quoting at length the lovely letters Alger wrote to him and Priscilla from the Lewisburg federal penitentiary, where he served three years and eight months in the early '50s. In effect, says Tony, the letters--gentle, loving, teasing, serene, filled with the observations of a bird watcher and stargazer--exonerate Alger. Bad things happen to good people. Alger's creed was not Marxism...