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...speech to the New Orleans conclave by Tennessee's freshman G.O.P. Senator Howard Baker, Dirksen's son-in-law. "I'm a lot less concerned about what my Democratic granddaddy must think of me," declared Baker, "and a lot more concerned about what my grandchildren will think...
Filed for probate in Los Angeles, the will of Walt Disney settled 45% of his vast estate on a Disney Family Trust for his widow Lillian, their two daughters and seven grandchildren; another 45% went to the philanthropic Disney Foundation, chiefly for the benefit of the California Institute of the Arts, and the remaining 10% established a trust fund for his sister and three nieces. The great fantasist's will mentions no dollar figures, but with all his monumental real-estate holdings and film enterprises, the total is estimated at more than $50 million...
...thousands of Americans and winning many battles," and that "the American intruders are losing the war." Every hour the indoctrinator paused and asked if anyone wanted to contribute to the session. The peasants were stubborn, recalled Ho Thi Xien, a widow who was kidnaped along with her war-orphaned grandchildren, and "no one ever said anything." In choosing Long Vinh, the Viet Cong had picked badly. Though the area is 95% under Communist control, almost every young man in the village has joined the South Vietnamese army, and most families are tied by blood as well as by inclination...
After the local bank's skillful sleuthing, Kruse might well be pleased. In Michigan, as elsewhere, the law spells out in detail the order in which the property of a person who dies intestate is to be distributed among his surviving relatives, including spouses, children, grandchildren, parents, brothers and sisters, their children and the decedent's cousins-on past fourth cousins. Kruse had never married, and his spinster sister Ann had died years before. After long digging, the bankers finally traced his nearest kin: six cousins, whom Ottawa County Probate Judge Fred Miles duly named Kruse...
...Hardin will say, "it doesn't really bother me that I'm not running in the Nationals. Maybe I'd make All-American. I could tell my grandchildren. Big deal...