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Monte Noelke, a rancher and another of Tankersley's great-great-grandchildren, is a raconteur with Homeric talents and the family's sidelong sense of humor. Monte has decided that he ought to start a business transplanting mesquite trees and selling them as immense houseplants to people in New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Texas: The Great Mesquite Wars | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...class in political science. At one point in the professor's discourse on Roosevelt's programs I asked: "Who is going to pay?" His pince-nez popped off his nose, his face reddened, and his eyes sparked, as he exclaimed, "You, you and your children and your grandchildren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 22, 1982 | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...greatgrandchild. The Brezhnevs' children are Galina, about 50, once married to a circus animal trainer and now the wife of Yuri Churbanov, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs; Yuri, 48, a Deputy Foreign Trade Minister; and Mikhail, 44, a journalist of whom little is known. There are three grandchildren: Yuri's sons Leonid, 25, and Andrei, 20, and Galina's daughter Victoria (Galya's mother). Brezhnev seems to have spent little time with them. In a candid moment, he once talked about his relationship with his son Yuri. "We don't see each other much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Record: Dec. 14, 1981 | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...Kathryn Lesica of Franklin, Sharon Boyle of Bedford and Diane Campbell and Anne Ronaye, both of Arlington; a son, Daniel L. Campbell Jr. of Arlington; two sisters, Margaret Gibbs of Wareham and Pearl Venard of Lowell: two brothers, Joseph Campbell of California and Harold Campbell of Connecticut: and two grandchildren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B&G Supervisor Dies Suddenly Of Heart Attack | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...grandparents prefer to speak Spanish at home and tune in only Spanish-language TV and radio programs, Don Carlos, center, and his family while Uva and Jorge switch back and forth between Spanish and English programs, and Uvi and Christina strictly prefer American offerings. The grandmother feels that her grandchildren's American friends are "very ill-mannered and have excessive freedom," and Uva must often act as referee between her mother and her daughters. Twenty years ago, for example, the grandparents insisted that a chaperone accompany Uva and Jorge when they went out, but now Uvi is permitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bridging the Cultural Gap | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

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