Word: brotherism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always a job for me on The $20,000 Pyramid") and a startling foundation of hard sense. "I'm being sold from here to Tim-buctoo," he admits. "But I'm doing the selling." He watched the jet-stream parabola traced by the career of his half brother David Cassidy and learned some hard lessons. "The average length of a career like mine is five years...
Sunday was just a light workout for the Harvard superman. Desaulniers raced by Palmer Page, older brother of Princeton's Tom Page, 15-9, 15-5 and 15-4 in the quarterfinals and then whipped third seed Vic Harding...
Dartmouth College President John G. Kemeny, an eminent mathematician, envisions great benefits from the computer, but in his worst-case imaginings he sees a government that would possess one immense, interconnecting computer system: Big Brother. The alternative is obviously to isolate government computers from one another, to decentralize them, to prevent them from possibly becoming dictatorial. But that would require considerable foresight, sophistication?and possibly a tough new variety of civil rights legislation...
DIED. Sam Houston Jones, 80, former Governor of Louisiana (1940-44) who defeated Earl Long, Huey's brother and political successor, thereby ending a twelve-year, scandal-ridden dynasty; of kidney failure; in Lake Charles, La. During his term, Jones cut the state payroll by one-third and reorganized the government. When Jones ran for Governor again in 1948, he was upset by Earl Long, but continued to be active in reform politics...
...Western standards, she reports, Israel's attitude toward women is regressive. Women are not allowed to testify in rabbinical courts, which handle divorce and marriage for all Jews. They cannot divorce without a husband's permission, and childless widows need a brother-in-law's approval for remarriage, sometimes gaining it with bribes. If a woman has been widowed three times, with all three husbands dying of natural causes, she is declared the isha katlanit, the fatal woman, and is legally forbidden to marry again. If a husband simply disappears, no matter how long he has been...