Word: clan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan clan, headed by a Guys and Dolls-type gypsy, Herschel Bernardi, needs to raise an $8,000 bridal fee to purchase a spitfiery West Side Story-type gypsy girl (Chita Rivera) for his son. The girl is so keen for the match that she stages a bajour (Romany for swindle) and cons the widow for the money. A subplot has the widow's daughter living in with the Bernard! bunch to research a Ph.D...
...being the largest single owner of Du Pont and one of the richest men in America, Copeland is also a chemist and a financial expert who believes in Andrew Carnegie's dictum: "Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch them." Fiercely loyal to the closely woven clan and its company, Copeland believes, in the best big-business tradition, that Du Pont has a duty to do a great deal more than make money for its 240,000 stockholders. As he sees it, the firm that his family founded needs to set the pace for others in opening...
Success did not mellow Runyon. He never stopped trying to impress newsroom recruits with his $40 shoes (size 51B) and his sharpie suits. He avoided the sportswriting clan's easy fraternity, arriving early and alone at the ballpark, leaving alone and late. He was a married bachelor whose first wife died of the habit that he had kicked...
...Kennedys are a resourceful clan; they faced West Virginia and Wisconsin and won. But New York may well prove different. Already reporters follow Robert Kennedy everywhere, attempting to unearth secret meetings with English, Buckley, and other party bossses. An overt Kennedy move will be news, and New Yorkers may well defeat in 1966 any obvious attempt to use their state to gain the presidency...
First All the Time. In the aftermath of the Dallas slaying, Bobby Kennedy was a shaken man, and for months afterward he moved about mechanically. But slowly the old combativeness began to return-and Bobby, seventh of the nine Kennedy children, is the most combative of the clan...