Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whipped by his father for stealing a penny from a church collection plate at the age of five. He once shot his sister Gloria in the fanny with a BB gun after she threw a wrench at him. He drove alone on highways for the first time at 13, and he had his first date at the same age. During his last week in high school, he played hooky and went to a movie; he was punished by not being chosen as valedictorian. He believed in UFOs as late as 1969, when he reported seeing one near a Lions Club...
Cheered and confident after his re-election victory, New York Governor Hugh Carey jetted down to the Bahamas with his lady love, Anne Ford Uzielli. They stayed in the sumptuous house owned by her father, whom Carey likes to call "Henry the Deuce. " But Carey, 59, apparently has not yet won his campaign for Anne, 35. When they returned to New York last week, he asked reporters to stop asking about the subject. But he was more expansive when discussing politics and personalities in a series of candid interviews in both the Bahamas and New York with TIME Senior Editor...
According to Agent King's testimony, hundreds of thousands of dollars were funneled to the fugitive by Laverne Bowden, president of Fidelity Equipment Leasing Corp., the Atlanta holding company for Thevis' pornographic distribution firms and retail outlets. King testified that Thevis' father George was seen carrying paper bags and manila envelopes stuffed with cash from the Fidelity offices. Before his elimination, Underbill deposited large sums of money in a Bahamian bank account. Thevis then borrowed money from the bank. An attorney placed shares of AT&T worth $297,000 in a trust in Thevis' name...
...Shah's attention to his armed forces has paid off. In the current crisis, the loyalty of his officers is unquestioned. The army's highly trained paratroop units, which include large numbers of Turks, Kurds and Baluchis, from provinces where the Shah is considered a father figure, have not hesitated to fire into unruly crowds when ordered to do so. Explained one paratroop captain to TIME Correspondent Brelis last week: "You can think of us having the same loyalty to the Shah that American officers have to the President of the U.S. Maybe if our recruits came...
...Margaret Mead's prodigious energy that launched her on a career that spanned more than half a century. In 1925 she sailed for Samoa with Boas' blessing and $1,000 from her father, and spent nine months observing the adolescent girls of three small coastal villages in the Manua Islands. The result of her study was published three years later as Coming of Age in Samoa...