Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...across the aisle from him on a train some years before; he had not recognized her. In the days before social security, Alfred pioneered in the field of old-age pensions, spent $350,000 of his own money in pension checks for Delaware's needy. His cousin and archenemy Pierre shelled out $4,000,000 of his fortune to replace more than 100 rundown public schools in the state. Today, hardly any Du Pont activity surprises anybody, including other Du Ponts. One (Ethel) even married a Roosevelt (Franklin D. Jr.); they got divorced in 1949. Current Du Pont maverick...
Grandfather Sam Johnson started but as a Baptist, converted to the Disciples of Christ, ended up a Christadelphian-which may be why Lyndon's Cousin Oriole still belongs to that hyperfundamentalist sect. Christadelphians claim to be living in the "last days of Antichrist," do not feel called upon to engage in social or political welfare, and are not supposed to vote, though Cousin Oriole has voted for Lyndon. Johnson's parents were Hard-Shell Baptists, but at 14 Lyndon joined the Disciples of Christ (the Garfield faith), and was baptized in the Pedernales River a few miles from...
...have made bids. McLean overcame Storke's objection to absentee ownership by purchasing the paper for himself, not for the Philadelphia Bulletin Co. He also promised to live in Santa Barbara part of each year, and he has already moved his nephew Stuart Symington Taylor, 50, a cousin of the Missouri Senator, from his job as Bulletin vice president to fulltime publisher of the News-Press. McLean and Taylor have tactfully asked Storke to stay on for life, perhaps as advisor and editor emeritus...
...misery and all earthly beauty is lustful and corrupt." Cheever's mother and her parents emigrated from England, and, he says, "there was a certain air of shabby gentility about the whole thing. I hate to speak about the twilight of Athenian Boston and all that, but Cousin Randall would play two Beethoven sonatas after dinner, and everyone would sit around and belch...
...construction companies are building 1,600 miles of Italy's handsome autostrade, using cement from IRI plants. IRI's Italsider subsidiary is Europe's biggest steelmaker. All this makes it much more diversified than its smaller if better known cousin, the ENI petroleum monopoly...