Word: father-in-law
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...neighborhood poverty worker in Emmons, W. Va., at $6,400 a year. Wearing cheap denim trousers and shirts, he sought the trust of the poor and, despite his name, obviously gained it. He entered the race for West Virginia's House only after soliciting his future father-in-law's advice-and won it handily...
...September, he received an invitation to attend a travel service conference in Moscow. The invitation, which was sent to travel agents throughout the United States, included the offer of reduced rates on Aeroflot. Kazen-Komarek's father-in-law, Donald Hunt, said that Kazen-Komarek had made many trips to Moscow in past years but that this was probably the first time he had flown on the Soviet Airline...
...Goldwater campaign: rubber magnate Leonard K. Firestone, Schick Razor president Patrick J. Frawley, former CIA chief John McCone (now a millionaire San Marino resident), and Henry Salvatori, co-chairman of Reagan's finance committee and member of Project Alert and the Anti-Communist Voters League. Reagan's father-in-law, Chicago neurosurgeon Loyal Davis, has also contributed heavily, and recruited support among right-wing friends...
...married, remain close to the marketing place. Son Donald, 34, an Amherst graduate, is a registered representative in a Merrill Lynch New York branch office. Daughter Joan, 30, is married to a Merrill Lynch junior executive, soon to be transferred to Detroit to the same job his father-in-law held some 30 years ago. Thomson has five grandchildren; and in preparation for visits from the older ones, he maintains in his Westfield home a slot machine of the sort classically known as a "one-armed bandit." He even furnishes the kids with dimes to try their luck...
...been engaged before." Nor, for that matter, has he ever previously been identified with the Democrats. No one will say whether Pat inherited his parents' Republican sympathies or how he voted in 1964-although Tillie Nugent offers the diplomatic guess that her son plumped for his future father-in-law. The suspicion remains that a crypto-Republican is marrying into the Johnson family. As Cartoonist Fischetti had a friend telling the President: "You're not losing a daughter, you're gaining a vote...