Word: clan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Filipino sociologists trace the high incidence of political shoot-outs to the islands' rigid feudalistic society. Members of a particular clan feel great loyalty to their leader, and the duty to defend him far outweighs the legal injunction against killing. Though the candidates themselves usually counsel moderation and almost never do any shooting, their followers often feel compelled by a fierce sense of honor to avenge insults-or to ensure their leader's victory by canceling out the other names on the ballot with bullets...
Dominant Role. Inland is far from being a family company, but the Block clan, which owns less than 5% of the stock, has long played a dominant role in its fortunes. Chosen last week to succeed Joe Block was his cousin, Vice Chairman Philip D. Block Jr., 61, whose father was Inland's first president. Having worked so long in Joe's shadow, Phil is regarded as a chip off the old Block who will pretty much continue his predecessor's policies...
...relations man, Brother Roger and their sister Mary preferred to not talk about it. Said Parks's secretary: "He's very upset about it. None of the Rusk family attended, you know." Neither did any Smiths, except for the bridegroom's parents. Mrs. Rusk's clan turned up in force...
...starved, yes; bastard, no. His legitimacy and parental ties, in fact, are ultimately responsible for the destruction of the Canalis family, a clan as full of brutality and fanaticism as the Karamazovs. Cowed by his father, shunned by his stepmother and stepsister, Anestis blunders his way around the farm until one day he surprises the mute servant girl (Elli Fotiou) in the barn, rapes and kills her-a murder quickly discovered by his parents. Because he is their son, the couple cannot and will not turn the murderer in. In stead, the old man beats the boy remorselessly-and then...
Born. To Teddy Kennedy, 35, youngest of the clan, and Joan Kennedy, 30: their third child, second son, making Joe and Rose grandparents for the 26th time; in Boston...