Word: father-in-law
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...learn the details of the former President's incriminating June 23, 1972 taped cover-up conversations. Only three days before he told the nation, Nixon gave his family the information?in effect, a confession that he had been lying to them for months. Nonetheless, Eisenhower still regards his father-in-law as a "natural resource" who ought to run for office once again, perhaps for the Senate...
...incident that is most embarrassing to the Mexican government, however, occurred last month when José Guadalupe Zuno, the 83-year-old father-in-law of President Luis Echeverria Alvarez and one of the most powerful men in Guadalajara, Mexico's second city, was kidnaped. Four armed men stopped Zuno's new blue Galaxie as it slowed to make a turn, disabled the chauffeur with Mace spray, and pulled Zuno into another car. His family warned that Zuno, a former governor of Jalisco State, and a political kingmaker, suffers from diabetes and might die unless he was given...
Echeverria was criticized last year for supposedly encouraging kidnaping when he released 30 leftist prisoners in exchange for Leonhardy's life. He has since vowed never to give in to blackmail, a decision that he said he would not revoke, even in the case of his own father-in-law. "Neither in this nor any other case shall we accede to the demands of kidnapers," said Echeverria...
...first glance, a review of Pehr Gyllenhammar's meteoric career suggests that he rose to the top because he has the right relatives. In 1969, at the age of 34, the trim, handsome lawyer replaced his father as head of Skandia, Sweden's largest insurance company. Two years later he succeeded his father-in-law as managing director of Volvo, the country's biggest industrial concern. Nepotism or not, the selection has certainly paid off. Under Gyllenhammar's leadership, Volvo has not only increased its sales by 70% (to more than $2 billion...
...Appalachia as a poverty worker, the nephew of Nelson Rockefeller and grandson of John D. Jr. easily won a seat in the state house of delegates, in 1968 was elected West Virginia's secretary of state. Handsome, rich, well educated (Exeter, Harvard, Yale) and well wed (his father-in-law is G.O.P. Senator Charles Percy), Rockefeller lost his bid for governorship in 1972 at least partly because he opposed strip mining. Now president of West Virginia Wesleyan College (enrollment: 1,525), he plans to try again...