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...Bengali businessman told of losing his son, daughter-in-law and four grandchildren in the fire. Few apparently survived in the destroyed sections-25 square blocks-of the Old City. If they escaped the flames, they ran into gunfire. To frighten survivors, soldiers refused to allow the removal of decomposing bodies for three days, despite the Moslem belief in prompt burial, preferably within 24 hours, to free the soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Dacca, City of the Dead | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

...pastor, somewhat astonished at it all, is basking in the open approval of his friends and a number of priestly colleagues. The reaction of his parents, who did not share the secret, pleases him especially. Said Robert F. Duryea Sr., when he learned that he had a daughter-in-law and grandson: "It was like a gift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Just Plain Bob | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

...noon, Huberdeau's father and mother and five of their children arrived for Sunday dinner with their son and daughter-in-law. They ate carefully...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs and Michael B. Mccarthy, S | Title: When the trial for these suspects ends, people are going to be very bewildered about... 'why?' | 10/6/1970 | See Source »

Michaels was long opposed, at least in public, to liberalizing New York's rigid abortion law. Last spring his sons and a daughter-in-law cited numerous horror stories about the grim effects of the law on pregnant girls, many of whom they knew personally. They begged him to support a perennial reform bill. Michaels sympathized, but when the bill came up in the legislature last spring, he was prepared to vote "nay"?especially in an election year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: When the Young Teach and the Old Learn | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

...that she is deeply troubled. The plot moves as imperceptibly as the earth. It concerns a year in the lives of the Ogata family, particularly Shingo, the head of the household. At 62, he feels old and vaguely discontented. The light in his life comes from his new daughter-in-law Kikuko, and he is constantly made despondent by the fact that her husband is already carrying on a public affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sunflowers for Comfort | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

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