Word: clans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MacBird, which promised a dramatic severing of President Johnson's head. In addition, it capitalized emotionally on a winter of public discontent with L.B.J.-the poll-recorded loss of favor with the electorate, the supposed credibility gap, concern about Viet Nam, Johnson's embroilment with the Kennedy clan...
...another Kennedy book is in the works. Bobby Kennedy Jr., 13, the clan's Clyde Beatty, is collaborating with his brother Michael, 8, on The Great Slaughter, a treatise on man's inhumanity to beast. Young Bobby already knows most of the basics about wildlife just from watching his own private animal kingdom at home in Mc-Lean, Va., where he tenderly harbors a scaly tegu named Thor, an iguana, two hawks, six chickens, two geese, six golden pheasants and assorted turtles and frogs, to say nothing of the family's five dogs and four horses...
...gesture of protest. He still maintains his deadpan cool when his father and brothers propose that Ruth stay on and earn her keep by working for them as a part-time whore. She agrees, her husband leaves, and at play's end the white-maned patriarch of the clan is sobbing at her feet, begging for a kiss...
Crypto-Communist. An aristocrat by birth and education (Oxford), he is also one of Scotland's leading socialists. Although MacLeod was chosen as Moderator of his church in 1957-the sixth member of his clan to hold the office-many of his fellow Presbyterians grumble that he is either a crypto-Communist or a Roman Catholic in disguise...
...Kennedys of Massachusetts may be a mighty clan, but the Udalls of Arizona are a whole private army...