Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Because he loved animals so, we put a watering trough in front of his grave," said Rhena Schweitzer Eclcert, 47. "A sheep lambed on his grave, and we think he would have liked that." Whether the late Albert Schweitzer would like what his daughter has been trying to do with his notoriously primitive hospital at Lambaréné since the doctor died last September is another matter. "We have finished the electrification of the wards," she reported, on a rare trip to New York, adding that a refuse-disposal system has replaced the garbage barrels that the goats used...
...grandfather and his father before him. On the night she was born, her career was chosen by Laurence Olivier, who was playing Hamlet to her father's Laertes. Prophesied Olivier in a curtain speech: "Ladies and gentlemen, tonight a lovely new actress has been born. Laertes has a daughter...
Question of Kind. Laertes' daughter never tried to escape the prophecy. When she went to Stratford to watch her father play, she recalls: "Stratford seemed ultimate, and of course I got stagestruck. All those rows of clothes hanging in corridors and the whole atmosphere. . . ." From then on it was only a question of what kind of actress she would be. Her father advised her to go all out for musical comedy: "You can always go into serious theater later . . . after all, Edith Evans didn't start till she was 30." He may have been thinking that her gangling...
...stand in the way of solution. At his recommendation, an agricultural program was adopted last December that, among other things, allows foreign firms to build and operate their own fertilizer plants-and set their own prices. After Shastri died, the new Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, was ultimately convinced of the program's necessity. Despite some indigenous political sniping, she has strongly sponsored it since. Recognizing the world's biggest potential fertilizer market when they see it, American firms are hurrying to get in on the ground floor. Items...
Died. Lady Megan Lloyd George, 64, younger daughter of Britain's World War I Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, who inherited his passionate attachment to the underdog, serving in Parliament for 31 years, first as a reform-minded Liberal M.P. from North Wales, then in 1955 bolting her father's party, which she felt was too right-wing, to become a Labor M.P.; of cancer; in Criccieth, Wales...