Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite her tough mind and tart tongue, Nehru's athletic, teetotaling daughter can brim with feminine charm. She constantly experiments with new hairdos (last week it was short and curly), can often be seen in a crowded New Delhi market munching ecstatically on the spicy Bengali yummy known as chaat. Though not conventionally devout, she always carries in her handbag a pocket edition of India's most sacred scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. She has always refused to run for Parliament, though she would be an unbeatable candidate, explaining that she considers "the role of mother more important." Nonetheless...
...Little Mermaid. And of all the Sirens and Scyllas seen by all the storm-tossed mariners, she was the first and only daughter of her finny race to serve as Neptune's permanent, peaceful ambassador to the footed world. Inspired by the Andersen story, a sculptor gave her form. Her abode became a wave-washed rock outside Copenhagen's harbor; her sleek, demure figure personified the life-giving sea and sea-sustained Denmark...
Alas for The Little Mermaid! Peering in horror across the misty bay early one morning last week, a Danish laborer found that the Sea King's daughter had been most foully murdered. Where glistening head and neck had once bent yearningly seaward, there was only a jagged hole. As news of the deed spread through Copenhagen, Danes by the thousands came to stand and grieve along the waterfront. City officials assured Danes that Sculptor Edvard Eriksen's 50-year-old mold had been preserved; the mermaid would be recapitated within the week. Maybe. To earthlings who had come...
Born. To Francis Beardsley, 48, chief warrant officer at the Navy postgraduate school at Monterey, Calif., and Helen North Beardsley, 34: their second child, second daughter; in Carmel, Calif. The couple's 19 other children (he had ten, she eight from previous marriages) all voted on a name for the new Beardsley, came up "unanimously," with Helen Monica...
...German chemist who in 1932 discovered that sulfonamides cured infection, thereby creating the first "wonder drugs"; of a heart attack; in Konigsfeld, West Germany. Domagk was research director for I. G. Farben when he found some textile dyes stopped infections in mice, successfully applied a dye to his daughter's infected finger, later isolated the active ingredient, a sulfa compound he called prontosil-an achievement that won him a 1939 Nobel Prize, which Hitler, piqued with the Nobel committee at the time, forced him to refuse...