Word: brother-in-law
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Like any normal, healthy Kennedy kinsman, the President's brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, has political ambitions. Having successfully launched the Peace Corps, Shriver would like to go onward and upward to elective office in Illinois...
...schoolteacher, Kerr was born near Ada, in what was then Indian territory, worked as a salesman and schoolteacher, passed the bar after clerking in an Ada law office. In 1929, he joined with his brother-in-law to start a shaky drilling company that eventually became the $200 million Kerr-McGee corporation. Kerr entered Democratic politics as a fund raiser and spokesman for the oil and gas industries, was elected Governor in 1942, and went to the Senate in 1948. He became the second-ranking Democrat, behind Virginia's Byrd, on the Senate Finance Committee. As such, he last...
Goodwin's position became untenable. But the President's brother-in-law, Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, rescued him. He first "borrowed" Goodwin to plan a 43-nation conference on Peace Corps manpower problems. After the conference, Goodwin lingered at the Peace Corps. Finally, his nameplate was removed from his State Department office. His new, "permanent" Peace Corps post: Director of the International Secretariat for Peace Corps Development-a lofty title for the fuzzy job of trying to get other nations to create their own Peace Corps...
Indirectly, Bunge & Born got its start in the lyth century, when a merchant family named Bunge (pronounced bungee) began trading in wheat along the Baltic coast. In 1876, when the first immense shipments of grain began to flow to Europe from the Pampas, young Ernest Bunge and his brother-in-law, George Born, emigrated from Antwerp to Buenos Aires and started a branch that soon overshadowed its European trunk. The company expanded even more rapidly under Ernest Bunge's successor, German-born Alfred ("Don Alfredo") Hirsch, who used the grain trade profits to diversify into milling and manufacturing. Since...
Died. Louis Skidmore, 65, co-founder (with his brother-in-law Nathaniel Owings) of the U.S.'s most uncompromisingly modern architectural firm, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which, beginning with Manhattan's Lever House, made stark glass-and-steel structures into the silhouette of U.S. business prestige; after a long illness; in Winter Haven, Fla. From the firm's start in 1936 until his retirement because of ill-health in 1955, dapper, Indiana-born "Skid" set his sights by Mies van der Rohe's hard-edged lines, attracted some of the nation's top architects into S.O.M...