Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wife, children and 28 grandchildren were well provided for by large trust funds set up during his lifetime. Accordingly, the late Joseph Kennedy willed the bulk of his fortune to the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation for the mentally retarded (his eldest daughter Rosemary is mentally retarded). Over and above her trust fund, Rose Kennedy received $500,000 in cash and title to the Standard Building in Albany, N.Y. His two sisters received $25,000 apiece. Estimated size of Kennedy's estate: between $200 million and $400 million...
...exhibit tries to examine the main representation of American commercial architecture, the skyscraper. New York's monsters, the illuminated posters tell us, are the grandchildren of the Babylonian ziggurats, medieval siege towers, Notre Dame, and Christopher Wren's churches...
...desk in his book-lined study. As he edits manuscripts, he extends his right index finger along the contoured body of the fountain pen to its tip. To his right is an old-fashioned inkwell from which he refills the pen, and to his left photographs of his grandchildren. There is always a vase of fresh flowers on the desk...
...claim may be inaccurate, but no Soviet reader would impute any negative intent to it. To the Western visitor, the majority of Moscow street sweepers appear to be women-and the older the better. Babushka seems to have only two choices: baby-sit with the grandchildren or help sweep the streets. The circumstances of this exclusively geriatric female occupation is not completely lost on the Russians, however. During the Khrushchev regime (remember him?), the following joke was current in Moscow: It was rumored Khrushchev had an argument with a woman member of the party Presidium. "I'll have...
...activists, socialists, and Communists, many of them, together with their children, continued to participate to the full in the great struggles in this country for civil liberties, racial justice, and economic emancipation. It would be sad if the lessons of those struggles are now lost on their better-heeled grandchildren. For only now, when the economic position of most Jews (especially those at Harvard) is fairly secure, is it possible to forget that the liberation of the world's Jews ultimately depends on what happens to the rest of the world's peoples-including painters' helpers, including Palestinians. And only...