Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, after a secluded fortnight in Woodside, Calif., the wan-looking Illinois Republican announced that he would resume his campaign this week for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Paul Douglas, 74. Both had suspended the race after the Sept. 18 murder of Percy's daughter Valerie-a case that remained a mystery last week-and Percy, 47, went out of his way to thank Douglas for acting "generously, graciously and with understanding...
...Fresh Egg. The only daughter of a wealthy rice broker in North Viet Nam and the wife of a civil servant, Mme. Xa grew up "studying like a man" in a house filled with rosewood and mother-of-pearl paneling and glass windows "as blue as the sky." Strictly chaperoned, she learned social work, painted landscapes, wrote poems to the Virgin Mary-and, at age 14, snatched away the billy club of a policeman beating a street peddler. Her family supported the Viet Minh war for independence, then was turned out of house and home by the victorious Communists...
Married. Marie-Denise Duvalier, 24, eldest daughter of Haitian Dictator Fran?ois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier; and Jerome Max Dominique, 26, a captain in the Presidential Guard; he for the second time; in Port-au-Prince...
Married. Maria Schell, 40, Viennese movie star; and Veit Relin (real name: Franz Pichler), 40, avant-garde theater director and father of her three-monthold daughter; both for the second time; in Reitmehring, Germany...
...races and ice-cream sundaes. She eventually sells off her furniture, buys a jaunty little car, and finances a Communist cobbler who yearns to open a self-service shoe store. Before death overtakes her, the cheeky septuagenarian has lived two lives-one being the long years of servitude as daughter, wife and mother, the other made up of 18 brief but glorious months of scandalous self-indulgence...