Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Masher, which looks like a kissing cousin to a small filing cabinet, has been under development for three years It is now deemed completely safe. A key-presumably kept out of reach of children and would-be suicides-must be turned, a button pushed and the door closed before it will work. The machine had a successful test run last fall in Houston, Atlanta and New Orleans, few prospective customers seemed upset over the somewhat stiff purchase price...
...antiroyalist call of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Hussein, only 22, narrowly escaped a similar death; his life and throne were saved by the intervention of British paratroopers. In Amman, the boy King took the train of events heavily. "I have received confirmation of the murder of my cousin, King Feisal of Iraq, and all his royal family," he told reporters. "They are only the last in a caravan of martyrs...
...first days as King, there was scant improvement. His idea of a fun evening was to disguise himself as a taxi driver, pick up customers in Amman and ask them what they thought of their new monarch. Hussein preferred blondes, but in 1955 he married a Hashemite cousin named Dina, several years his elder. She bore him only a daughter, and after two years Hussein quietly divorced her. He soon married a brunette British secretary named Toni Gardiner, whose father was an army officer stationed in Jordan; a convert to Islam, she is known as the Princess Muna, Arabic...
...McCloud is a New Mexico marshal assigned temporarily to take lessons from the New York City police. Naturally he turns the tables, proving himself Manhattan's fastest gun, lowest tipper, and the lucky stud who stashes his boots under the sofa of the police commissioner's worldly cousin. It is all hokum, of course, but more entertaining than most of the competition...
...time, presented its "Russian authority," Dr. Max J. Putzel, in "an eyewitness account from Moscow." Fact of the matter, according to a charge brought by the Federal Communications Commission last week, was that Max Putzel was a professor of German literature who happened to be a cousin of the then WPIX news producer and who, at the time of the broadcast, was not in Moscow but back home in Gary...