Word: brother-in-law
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...whether it was a name or a military rank. They had also heard that he was coming to explain a new U.S. assistance program-which they automatically assumed had something to do with money or material goods. It was, therefore, a considerable surprise when R. Sargent Shriver Jr., brother-in-law to President John Kennedy and director of the U.S. Peace Corps, stepped down from his DC-3 in open-necked white shirt and grey woolen slacks. Making an eight-nation tour of Asia and Africa in preparation for actual Peace Corps operations, Sarge Shriver, 45, soon assured the Punjabis...
...chose Agilulf, the Duke of Turin, her late husband's brother-in-law. For his coronation as King of the Lombards, Pope Gregory the Great lent the sacred Iron Crown, which supposedly bore a nail from the Cross. The Pope had good reason, so the legend goes, to show Theodolinda this special favor. A fervent Roman Catholic, she persuaded her husband and most of his subjects to abandon the Arian heresy. For the first time in decades, a religious peace settled over the Lombards, and crime virtually disappeared...
...Smithsonian Institution staffer, was announced from Palm Beach, where Jackie lent especial cachet to a dinner-dance assemblage of solid-gold socialites including Mrs. Winston Guest, Mrs. Earl E. T. Smith, Countess Mercedes de Bendern and Hostess Dawn Coleman (the President's replacement as escort: Brother-in-Law Peter Lawford). The First Lady, whose Southern trip was marred by reports of an abortive kidnap plot against Daughter Caroline, inevitably made further news with her Easter wardrobe selections. She appeared scarved, barelegged and besandaled at Good Friday services. For Sunday she had assembled her standard pillbox hat-in blue straw...
...featured speaker will be R. Sargent Schriver, President Kennedy's brother-in-law and administrator of the Administration's Peace Corps proposal. Schriver will speak to the delegates tomorrow evening...
Steaks at Home. President and Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy's sister and brother-in-law, the Princess and Prince Radziwill. attended 12 o'clock Mass at the Middleburg Community Center on Sunday. The President arrived by helicopter just before Mass. There was at least double the usual congregation, but only about 50 people waited to see them emerge. Most of these were local good Methodists and Baptists who were already out of their own churches. There were no Episcopalians hanging around...