Word: clan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly every year. Indian maharajas ordered them gold-plated, Lawrence of Arabia covered his with armor. Field Marshal Montgomery's Rolls was the first private car to land with Allied forces on D day. Other owners have included Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand and the Michael Jackson clan, who are said to own eight among them. Queen Elizabeth has five Rolls-Royces and was disturbed when she saw the new square side mirrors on her latest, a 1978 Phantom VI. Company officials scrambled to replace them with the old round version...
...Harvard alumnus, kicked off its trip June 10 at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. On Saturday, 20 states and 4000 miles later, the cyclists--who encountered snow storms in Wyoming, and Hurricane Bob in Tennessee-ended their journey at Government Center. There, the tired clan was greeted by President Bok and a representative of Governor Michael S. Dukakis, who declared it "Cyclists Fighting Hunger...
...most picked on family. After waiting for several hours in line at a posh restaurant, the last five lobsters are taken from right under then noses by the restaurant's most special customer (who also had the decency to cut the line right in front of the Chester clan...
...August People are 16 members of the Winderman family, gathering on some 50 acres of prime land in the last full month of summer. No. 17 is on the way: Ellen, married into the clan, is pregnant. What she first sees is a family bound by ritual and affection, led by the 70-year-old paterfamilias, Charles. But as temperatures and voices rise, unflattering revelations occur. The internecine tennis matches are actually contests of will: "Bryan, a fragile 18-year-old loser, walked to the net to shake hands with his uncle. Ellen was so proud of the open, pleasant...
DIED. Walter S. McIlhenny, 74, patriarch of a deep-rooted Louisiana clan and chairman of the family-owned McIlhenny Co., sole producers of that throat- searing, sinus-clearing concoction of fermented hot peppers, vinegar and salt invented in 1848 and first marketed in 1868 by his grandfather and named Tabasco; after a stroke; in Lafayette...