Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...palace to the governorship of Sayaboury province; the governor, a bit of an oddball, recently decreed that every elephant in Sayaboury had to wear a license plate.) In total rejection of his father's strenuous love life, the prince married one woman. Princess Khamphouy, a plump cousin, stayed faithful and sired five children. The old King proved totally uninterested in Prince Savang Vatthana's new ideas about agriculture, science and education. "My people only know how to sing and make love," he said...
...spectacle of eye gouging, groin kicking and neck chopping. To a lavishly mirrored studio on Los Angeles' South La Cienega Boulevard last week came a pack of TV and film stars to watch an exhibition of the latest fad in craze-crazy filmland: karate. A more violent cousin of jujitsu and judo, Japanese-imported karate (pronounced kah-rah-tay) aims at delivering a fatal or merely maiming blow with hand, finger, elbow or foot, adopts the defensive philosophy that an attacker deserves something more memorable than a flip over the shoulder. Karate is now taught in more than...
Billy Prince began his business career at the most difficult place: the top. He was born William Wood, the son of a wealthy insurance executive. His father was a friend and distant cousin of eccentric Magnate Frederick Henry Prince, who played a dominant role in Armour for 15 years and liked to boast that he had built four U.S. railroads and controlled 46 others. Frederick Henry Prince lacked an heir: his younger son had been killed flying in World War I and his older son preferred the life of a gentleman farmer to business. Prince took a fatherly interest...
Through the Prince trust, he became chairman of five boards, president of 13 companies and director of 17, including Armour. He did not disappoint Cousin Fred, who died at 93 in 1953. As boss of Chicago's Union Stock Yards from 1949 through 1957, Billy Prince spent $2,000,000 on improvements, another $3,000,000 to enlarge and air-condition the International Amphitheatre at the Yards. When Armour needed a new chief in 1957, the board turned automatically to Director Billy Prince...
...obvious man to include was ex-Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma, who was put in office by the rebels last August and chased to exile in Cambodia by the army in December. But the King detests Prince Souvanna, who is his distant cousin. Fortnight ago, a Russian Ilyushin 14 slipped into the Cambodian capital of Pnompenh bearing a rebel delegation that tried to talk Souvanna into returning to Laos to head up a rump government in the rebel-held sector. Souvanna cautiously refused to budge...