Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eventually, Shriver was made assistant general manager-a kind of all-round vice president involved in sales, promotion, advertising. He married the boss's daughter in 1953 after six years of off-again-on-again courtship. Says Shriver: "She's a hard person to sell-tough as her father." They settled down in a 14-room duplex in Chicago, produced three bright-eyed kids (Robert Sargent III, 9; Maria, 7; and Timothy, 3). Shriver got deeply involved in civic affairs-as a good Kennedy in-law would-including five years on the Chicago board of education. He resigned...
...their moral granite, the Scots clearly had their problems. A 1661 statute, designed to curb rebellious youth, decreed that any "sonne or daughter above age of sextein yeers not being distracted [demented] shall beate or curse their father or mother shall be put to death without mercy." On the other hand, the loss of some of the old laws might be said, from a dour point of view, to contribute to modern decadence. Among them: repeal of a prohibition (1579) against "gamyng and playing, passing to tavernis and ail-houses and wilfull remaning fra [away from] the paroche kirk...
Motive Within. She is an osteopath's daughter from Kirksville, Mo., who was raised in Chicago and did her first play with a Methodist church group. "I'm going to do this for the rest of my life," she decided, and enrolled at Chicago's Goodman Memorial Theater School of Drama. When she graduated, she formed a summer stock company, which she and several schoolmates kept running for a remarkable four years. She taught drama one year at De Paul University and worked with a rep group called the Valentine Traveling Players, building for herself a versatility...
Married. Margott Pérez Jiménez, 17, eldest daughter of Venezuela's ex-Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez (who languishes in a Miami jail awaiting possible extradition home on charges of embezzling $13 million); and Lee Brook, 20, a onetime car-park attendant; after an elopement that touched off a nationwide hunt, which ended when Brook called his brother from their hideout, a nearby motel, to announce: "I love her and I've got her"; in Key West...
...Mina. Among the younger men, Armando is a sex-starved punk who works for the local numbers racketeer; Esteban runs guns to a revolutionist named Castro; Robert fiddles on the periphery of the left wing but lacks the will to fish or cut bait. A domineering, money-mad daughter, Elena, is married to a Batista speechwriter who regularly hauls huge bundles of cash from Havana to a Miami bank and is contemptuous of all the pin-poor folk of Ybor City...