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...Confederate troops, but as his plot disintegrated he decided on murder instead, and a number of the others withdrew. Booth nervously bided his time until he could seize a dramatic moment. He chose the night of April 14, 1865 when Lincoln was to attend a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington. Booth visited the presidential box-No. 7-a few hours before curtain time, saw that the lock on its door was broken and cut a small peephole through the wood...
...BRAJ KUMAR NEHRU. Hunganan-born Shobha Nehru met her husband, a cousin of Jawaharlal's, when they were students in London, and married him in 1935 over the protests of his Brahman family. She has "Indianized" the embassy, throws parties with a strictly Indian flavor. The food, says one guest, "is sometimes unrecognizable but always delicious...
Vatican Intervention. Sarita's death created a legal battle that eventually forced the Vatican to intervene. Bishop Garriga sued to regain his old position as a member of the foundation. Sarita's cousin also sued for reinstatement, and got an injunction preventing Brother Leo, Grace and associates from touching any of the estate's funds. In addition, he demanded an accounting of $1,000,000 that Brother Leo had withdrawn from Texas banks, apparently to finance the South American monasteries...
...girl owned the heavily trafficked house they lived in. The owner was Bobby Baker, who bought it for $28,000 on a down payment of $1,600. On the FHA forms that he signed, Baker listed both girls as the tenants of the house, said that Carole was his "cousin." She resigned from her job as a Senate employee at the same time Baker did, and has not since been available to inquiring newsmen...
Early in the week, after a round of speechmaking in New England, the President had sandwiched in a visit to his father's Cape Cod home, where he cruised near Hyannis Harbor with Joe and Cousin Ann Gargan aboard Joe's 52-ft. yacht Marlin. Later old Joe, who rails at the handicaps of the partial paralysis and loss of speech he still suffers as a result of his stroke nearly two years ago, was off to Chicago. There he had a therapy treatment for his useless arm and leg at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and took...