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PASSINGS: Doris Singleton, Elinor Agnew, Bob Banfield, Patricia Bario
Doris Singleton
Actress worked with Lucille Ball
Doris Singleton, 92, an actress best known for playing Lucy's friend Caroline Appleby on the classic TV comedy "I Love Lucy," died Tuesday in Los Angeles of complications from cancer, according to her...Tags: Television, Politics, Geraldine Ferraro, Lucille Ball, Brooklyn (New York City)
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Newt's swan song in the key of F, as in Florida?
Opinion L.A.I'm kind of missing Newt Gingrich already. It's pretty obvious that the Republican sachems are putting the citrus state death-squeeze on his choleric, solipsistic, haymaker-swinging, high-concept, low-road, zany Nicolas Cage-style presidential campaign.... -
Betty Ford dies at 93; former first lady
Former First Lady Betty Ford, who captivated the nation with her unabashed candor and forthright discussion of her personal battles with breast cancer, prescription drug addiction and alcoholism, has died. She was 93.
Ford died Friday at the Eisenhower...Tags: Politics, Morley Safer, Abortion, Addiction, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Mark O. Hatfield dies at 89; longtime Oregon senator was bedrock of moderate Republicanism
Mark O. Hatfield, whose 35 years as Oregon's U.S. senator illuminated his conviction that Republicans could be God-fearing conservatives and also passionate advocates for ending wars and racial discrimination, has died. He was 89.
Hatfield died Sunday in...Tags: Politics, Nuclear Weapons, Abortion, Parties and Movements, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Why politics didn't come between Sargent Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger
Opinion L.A.Over the weekend, Arnold Schwarzenegger wrote an Op-Ed for our pages in tribute to his father-in-law Sargent Shriver. He recounted the 1994 commencement speech Shriver gave at Yale that inspired Schwarzenegger to change his life path. Break mirrors, Sarge... -
Voices -- William Safire, 1929 - 2009
The Daily MirrorHere are some of the basic characteristics of the Nixon inner style, or method of operation: --A preference for persuasion rather than coercion. --An identification with heartland qualities, leaning unabashedly toward the square side. --A frustrating... -
White House war against Fox, Wall Street, Chamber of Commerce: a new Nixonian enemy's list?
Top of the TicketThe war between the White House and Fox News keeps getting louder. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on Tuesday continued the assault, even as some pundits and analysts voiced concern that the tactic could backfire by giving the already-popular....... -
Comings and goings in Florida as Charlie Crist says goodbye to GOP
Top of the TicketItâs been quite a day in Florida politics, with two partings (neither of which involved sweet sorrow) and the announcement of one arrival. The first parting: The state GOP got rid of sold an oil painting of Gov. Charlie Crist,...... -
'Norman Mailer, MoonFire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11'
In 1969, 600 million people -- one-fifth of the world's population -- watched the live television broadcast of the moonwalk. Leading art book publisher Taschen has not let the 40th anniversary go unheralded; its book " Norman Mailer, MoonFire: The Epic...Tags: Television, Norman Mailer, Satellite and Cable Service, Photography, Buzz Aldrin
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George McGovern: Cheney is wrong about me, wrong about war
GEORGE S. MCGOVERN, a former U.S. senator from South Dakota, was the Democratic nominee for president in 1972.VICE PRESIDENT Dick Cheney recently attacked my 1972 presidential platform and contended that today's Democratic Party has reverted to the views I advocated in 1972. In a sense, this is a compliment, both to me and the Democratic Party. Cheney intended no...Tags: Politics, Armed Conflicts, International Military Interventions, Terrorism, Parties and Movements
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Paraphrasing the '60s
TODD GITLIN teaches journalism at Columbia University. His next book, "The Bulldozer and the Big Tent," will be published by John Wiley this fall.THE NEWS burst forth this week that eight former radicals, all or almost all of them said to have been members of a Marxist-Leninist fragment called the Black Liberation Army (a small breakaway from the faction-ridden Black Panthers) had been arrested &#...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Health and Safety at School, Armed Forces, Social Issues, Lawyers
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'The Puppet Show' at Santa Monica Museum of Art
Special to The Times"The Puppet Show" isn't as much fun as you'd expect. And that's not because this exhibition at the Santa Monica Museum of Art is so serious and probing that fun is too frivolous an experience to expect from its mostly impressive inventory of works by 27...Tags: Richard Nixon, Fashion Shows, Documentary (genre), Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Arts
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