Word: daughter-in-law
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Socialist simplicity, he is happiest in the three-room prefab that is still kept for him in the Negev pioneer settlement of Sde Boker. Even in his state residence in Jerusalem, he goes about in shirtsleeves and prefers to eat with his wife, son and daughter-in-law in the kitchen. His wife still cooks his meals and darns his socks. His personality and manners, his leisured kindliness, have remained utterly unchanged by a generation in power. But he likes power, and he knows how to wield it. "The world," says Ben-Gurion, "is not yet accustomed to the revival...
...four days before Christmas, a baby girl was born to Major and Mrs. John Eisenhower, the only son and daughter-in-law of the President. It was Barbara Eisenhower's fourth child, her third girl, and mother and baby were both reported "doing very well." The baby's weight was 7 Ibs., 2 oz.; her name was Mary Jean...
...Wooden Dish (by Edmund Morris) tackles an always real situation without much sense of reality. It concerns an old man who has long lived, unwanted, with his son and daughter-in-law and who now, half blind, breaks dishes and sets things on fire. The daughter-in-law threatens to leave the house if Pop is not sent to a "home." Here the play starts to bounce away from its theme: the daughter-in-law begs the boarder to run off with her; the teen-age granddaughter theatrically intervenes. In time, the old man sets forth gallantly for the rest...
Grounded for a month: Aviatrix Jacqueline Auriol, 37, daughter-in-law of France's ex-President Auriol and recent setter of the women's unofficial speed record (TIME, June 13). The grounds for her grounding were tersely set forth by a nettled official of Brétigny Air Center, where Jacqueline, a madcap in a cockpit, seared her new mark (708 m.p.h.): "You have flown too low, too fast. You have taken too many risks. You will be punished and suspended...
Peace and freedom for his country are the goals of optimistic Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab, who is planning a journey to Moscow to seek them. Peace and freedom also were the goals sought last week by Hungarian Istvan Bago, 60, his son Johann, his daughter-in-law and their daughter, Maria, 8, as they crawled toward Austria through a mined field on the Red Hungarian border. They had almost reached their goal when one of the Bagos stepped on a mine. Alerted by the explosion, Communist border guards opened fire, but somehow, though two were badly wounded, the family managed...