Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brown family, which bought up Partner John Forman's interest in 1902, still owns 74% of the company stock, worth $70 million. Chairman George Garvin's cousin and heir apparent, Robinson S. Brown Jr., 49, succeeded Street as executive vice president. In line behind him are two young great-grandsons of the founder, now undergoing an aging process in the company's executive ranks...
...After a thrilling visit to the chief of the Corsican rebels, he dashed off an eloquent Account of Corsica and found himself suddenly a bestselling author. Three years, four courtships and five mistresses later, Boswell was well established as an Edin burgh advocate, and at 29 married an impecunious cousin, Margaret Montgomerie. Father was furious, but Boswell insisted that he really loved the girl. And he really did. As the volume ends, the reader realizes that Boswell was less a fool than he liked to seem, though certainly more a fool than it is safe to be. Pottle leaves...
...Field in the U.S.A., where Juan Marichal is pitching against the Cincinnati Reds. The game is very tense. "If Juan were running for President," a voter sighs, "it would be a landslide." It might, and at least one poiltician knows it. Presidential Candidate Joaquin Balaguer has Juan's cousin, also named Juan Marichal, as a running mate on his ticket, and has posters calling himself "The Marichal of the Palace." He can't lose...
...major customer: the U.S. Government. And, as anyone who has seen its silver planes around Viet Nam, Laos and Thailand might surmise, Air America is a special kind of enterprise. It is so special, in fact, that virtually everyone in Asia assumes it to be the child - or first cousin - of the Central Intelligence Agency...
...Swiss road, very nearly losing an eye. To this day he seldom appears in public without tinted glasses. He had been studying science; when he assumed the throne in 1946, he went back to Switzerland to finish his studies and switched to law. He first saw his beautiful second cousin Sirikit when she was only 14, at a reception in Paris, where her father was the Thai ambassador. When he returned to Europe as King, he pursued her in earnest. The wedding took place in April 1950, one month be fore Bhumibol's formal coronation...