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Bundy has several friends--including his brother-in-law--in the Cambridge Civic Association, which joined the University in objecting to Sullivan's project. No one at Harvard, however, would deny that pressure upon Bundy came from University officials as well...
Actor Peter Lawford is virtually the only male relative of the Kennedy family who still has no Government job. In addition to Brother Bobby as Attorney General and Brother-in-Law Sarge Shriver as director of the Peace Corps, Brother-in-Law Steve Smith was discovered working quietly as an unpaid consultant for the Development Loan Fund. In faraway Seattle, Herbert Legg, Washington State Democratic chairman, was prompted to remark: "The Kennedys have what one might call an English awareness of friends and relatives, because they know their friends and relatives are qualified-else they wouldn't be friends...
Pilot Program. At his press conference, the President announced the establishment of a pilot program, by executive order, financed by unallocated foreign aid funds and directed by his brother-in-law, R. Sargent Shriver. Simultaneously he sent a special message to Congress, asking for legislation to organize the corps on a permanent basis under the supervision of the State Department. "This corps," he said, "will be a pool of trained men and women sent overseas by the U.S. Government or through private institutions and organizations to help foreign governments meet their urgent needs for skilled manpower...
Sullen Lout. Gouffé, a well-to-do Parisian of respectable habits, vanishes and his brother-in-law Jacquemar appeals for help to Goron, the potbellied, hamster-cheeked chief of police. In some hundred pages of hard work and intuitive skill, Goron pieces together the scanty clues, finds Gouffe's body and arrests his undoubted murderers-a sullen lout named Eyraudt, who had fled to, of all places, Chicopee, Mass., and a young prostitute named Gabrielle Bompard, who makes even the smoldering Justine of Durrell's Alexandria Quartet appear fairly innocuous by comparison...
...Just the way you used to do it back on the old team," said Boris Donellovich, who was Nik's brother-in-law and a man of great importance as special assistant to the commisar and organizer of soccer games at family outings...