Word: fatherness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Witch Hunt. Lewis was born to his job. His father, an immigrant miner from Wales, was blacklisted by his company's management for his role in a bitter, late-19th century strike John L. quit school before he finished the eighth grade, and by age 15 he had followed his father to the pits. In Colorado he mined coal. Then it was copper in Montana, silver in Utah, gold in Arizona. In 1911, Lewis went to work for Samuel Gompers, then president of the American Federation of Labor and the greatest labor tactician of the era. Because he could...
...woman married her brother-in-law after her husband was declared dead in World War II and bore her second spouse two children. When the first husband reappeared unexpectedly, he became not only her legal husband again -the second marriage was invalidated -but also, under Italian law, the father of the children. The family decided to live together in a cozy menage a trois in which the woman was married to the first man, a legless veteran, but cohabited with the second...
...week of Eire's national elections. If that were not enough, June 16 is Bloomsday. It is a good time to reflect on the ways and woes of the Irish, and TIME asked Novelist Wilfrid Sheed to do so. Sheed is only part Irish (on his father's family's side). But as an English Catholic schoolboy and an American writer of quality (Square's Progress, The Blacking Factory and Pennsylvania Gothic), he has had the opportunity and inclination to observe the Irish, fondly and sharply, for years...
...interest and enthusiasm and Tricia's flowing golden tresses. The Nixon ladies then returned to Washington, but not for long. Pat leaves on a three-day trip to California and the Pacific Northwest this week, and Tricia is getting ready for a jaunt to Britain to represent her father at the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales...
...talk to De Gaulle and the French elections. He put a bearded and denim-wearing Peter Fonda at ease and then drew him out about the American educational system ("It's a mess-but my old lady won: our kids go to school") and the generation gap ("My father and I have gotten much closer in the past few years." At least "we talk to each other on the phone every...