Word: brotherism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chester. A few weeks later, in the woods near Chadds Ford-a locale made famous by Artist Andrew Wyeth-state police unearthed the bodies of three gang associates: Wayne Sampson, 20, Duane Lincoln, 17, and James Johnston, 18. The three had disappeared in August, along with Sampson's brother James...
There were always stories about how the former head of the intelligence agency was now on the board of the corporation whose president had a brother at the World Bank who arranged billion-dollar loans so that a third world nation with a new right-wing regime propped up by the intelligence agency could finance a construction project proposed by the corporation...
There he works, in conjunction with a team of psychologists, in a "big brother" type program with a fatherless nine-year-old from the Martha Eliot Housing Project in Jamaica Plains...
...about Harvard hockey, and there's not too much I can say. Statements like, "Well, that George Hughes is pretty good, and his brother's not bad either," or "Late season collapses are one thing, but Harvard is ridiculous," although true, won't really tell you why the team wins or loses. I can spout some Truth after seeing one contest (the 6-5 overtime loss to RPI), but it's not fair to judge anyone on the basis of what he does in decrepit Troy, N.Y., where Zamboni-watching is more exciting than the nightlife...
DIED. Sam Houston Johnson, 64, the late President Johnson's only brother; of cancer; in Austin, Texas. The younger Johnson worked for L.B.J. for three decades, acting, he once explained, as "baby sitter, chauffeur, political troubleshooter, administrative aide and general adviser." In 1970 he published My Brother Lyndon, in which he wrote that anyone who works for L.B.J. for more than 30 days "ought to receive a Purple Heart...