Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then. The Biden family had moved from Scranton when their firstborn, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., was ten. They settled in a neat, three-bedroom house in a middle-class suburban development called Mayfield. Joe Sr., who never attended college, sold Chevrolets. Joe Jr. shared a room with his two brothers. Valerie, who would grow up to manage her brother's campaigns, was the lucky occupant of the third bedroom...
Stuck with the emptiness of a foregone conclusion, Vidal improvises diversions to fill in the space. One involves Caroline Sanford's battle with her half brother Blaise over their late father's $15 million estate. Temporarily blocked from her share, Caroline sells four Poussin paintings, buys a money-losing Washington newspaper, and spices it up with sensationalisms a la Hearst, the man whom Blaise admires as "something new and strange and potent." Hay muses, "The contest was now between the high- minded few, led by Roosevelt, and Hearst, the true inventor of the modern world. What Hearst arbitrarily decided...
...engineer, Rust lived with his parents and 15-year-old brother, who were described by Bonn officials as "completely bewildered" by Mathias' spectacular dilemma. Said one investigator: "He was a nice, quiet, dedicated young man from whom no one expected great deeds, or great misadventures either." The Rust family decided to sell the rights to their story, presumably to offset some $100,000 in fines and charges that Mathias could face, to the weekly West German picture magazine Stern...
...trusted by most of his country's warring factions. By the time he was assassinated last week, in the explosion of a bomb aboard his military helicopter, Rashid Karami, 65, had served ten times as Lebanon's Prime Minister. The country's Maronite Christian President Amin Gemayel -- whose brother Bashir had been killed by a bomb in 1982 -- quickly named another Sunni Muslim, Selim Hoss, as acting Prime Minister. Suspects in the murder ranged from Christian Phalangists to Shi'ite radicals. At week's end Parliament Speaker Hussein Husseini, the government's ranking Shi'ite Muslim, resigned to protest...
While Richard von Weizsacker was on the front, drafted at the age of 18, his father, Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, was working in the foreign ministry, first as a chief diplomat, and later as an ambassador to the Vatican. His brother, Karl Fredrich, was a prominent physicist, who was at work for the Nazi regime in attempting to develop an atom bomb...