Word: brotherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...October. Soon afterward, Leff meant to have Joe retire from the ring as undefeated champion, plunge into youth work and life as a family man. Only when boxing-world conditions "took a turn for the better" did Leff intend to bring Joe's younger brother Steve along as the next heavyweight champion...
...Juliet) Hayes and Florence (Fanny) Henderson. It races along like a hot rod, but every other line and every song is part of the sales spiel. The title: Got Rhythm. The message: "I got beauty! I got styling! I got sweet lines." "The car," intones D. P. Brother ad agency Vice President Frank Egan, "is, of course, the real star of the show...
...they too should depart before the deadline. The three, all lieutenant generals: Vernon E. Megee, 59, commanding the Fleet Marine Forces in the Pacific; Edwin A. Pollock, 60, commanding the FMF in the Atlantic, and Merrill B. Twining, 56, commandant of the Marine Corps School at Quantico (and younger brother of Air Force General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff). Upon retirement under the Tombstone Law, all three will achieve four-star rank (but not necessarily an increase in retirement...
...toppled in the past two years, the U.S. attitude shifted. By the time Vice President Nixon flew back from last year's Caracas stoning, he openly advocated nothing more than a cool, correct handshake for dictators. Milton Eisenhower made the recommendation even stronger in his report to his brother after a swing through Central America in mid-1958. "We have made some honest mistakes with dictators," said Milton. "For example, we decorated several of them. Whatever reason impelled us to take those actions, I think, in retrospect, we were wrong...
...police, and only slightly more corrupt." Yet she is well aware that "corruption is the price we have to pay for order." Her son might have realized it too, had he possessed only that measure of insanity normal to a bloodline transmitted for generations through the marriage of brother and sister. But when the priests of Amon, in the traditional coronation ceremony, pushed the new Pharaoh alone into the pitch-dark holy of holies and touched him with the dry hands of a jointed wooden idol, the royal mind snapped...