Word: brother-in-law
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Bauer, who began riding "in pony competition at the age of eight," spent a lot of time this Fall practicing on his brother-in-law's farm in Connecfient. "The fall schedule was really a burden. I had to ride every weekend...
...local inspector (Trevor Howard) is, of course, baffled. Circumstantial evidence convicts Salem's villainous brother-in-law Dr. Anton Jenks (Per Oscarsson). In suspecting Jenks, the inspector may be the most inept member of his profession since Peter Sellers' celebrated Inspector Clouseau, whose left hand never knew what his left hand was doing. For Salem leaves behind acres of fingerprints and miles of footprints in the brittle snow. He is undone at last by a device whose trade name is An Ironic Twist of Fate-but which is, in fact, an arbitrary solution imposed by a fatigued imagination...
...Life, Haiti's Dictator Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier has always acted as if he expected to be President in Perpetuity. His 1964 constitution made no provision for a successor. In fact, Papa Doc found the whole subject so offensive that he had his wife's brother-in-law, Lucien Daumec, executed in 1964 for showing too much interest in the job. Three years later he condemned his son-in-law, Max Dominique, to death for plotting, but reprieved him and instead executed 19 of Dominique's fellow army officers...
...brother-in-law of Jethro Pugh, defensive tackle for the Dallas Cowboys, he spent the summer in Dallas turning his wobblers into bullets. After his freshman season, people said his poor passing would get him switched to halfback. After a summer of practice throwing to Bobby Hayes of the Cowboys, people are afraid to say anything...
...cause, however, cannot have been hurt by the appearance last week of a Spiro Agnew watch on the wrist of Mrs. Ethel Kennedy. "I asked her what the watch did," reported Senator Ted Kennedy, "and she told me, 'You wind it up, and it criticizes your brother-in-law...