Word: great-grandson
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...simplest, most straightforward level, the Agassiz Cup story is characteristic because it's about crew--the sport that in 1929 helped bring Smithies, a 22-year-old Australian law student, the great-grandson of the first Methodist minister in western Tasmania, a Rhodes Scholarship. Finding England "too structured for my taste," Smithies went on to discover "the fleshpots of the United States" with a Commonwealth Fellowship and a Model A Ford, earn a quick Harvard doctorate in economics, return to Australia briefly to work in its treasury department, then settle in the United States for good...
...both soldier and politician, Nguyen Van Thieu has fought the Communist menace from the North, and it remains his abiding passion today. "We must be as patient as the Communists are," he mused last January. "My son, my grandson, my great-grandson must be patient." As for himself, Thieu added: "I will never desert. I may be overthrown, but I will never desert...
JUDGING from the mounting costs of political campaigns, one might conclude that democracy, as practiced in the U.S., is fast becoming a millionaire's game. Certainly H. John Heinz III, great-grandson of the founder of H.J. Heinz Co., would not be Pennsylvania's Congressman from the 18th District today were he not the inheritor of 57 varieties of fame and revenue. But Heinz's constituents, from suburbanites to mill workers, seem so happy with his performance that they are expected to return him to office with a stunning margin...
...look a little Appalachian as they tramp the West Virginia hills: the gangling 6-ft. 6-in. man (who gulps three burgers and three Cokes at a sitting), his uncomfortable six-months-pregnant wife, and occasionally his little sister. But the man is John D. ("Jay") Rockefeller IV, 35, great-grandson of the Standard Oilman, Democratic nephew of New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Wife Sharon, 27, is the attractive daughter of Illinois Senator Charles Percy. Sister Alida Rockefeller recently graduated from Stanford...
...came by tractor and motorcycle, on carts drawn by camels and bullocks, and most often on foot. There were youths in bell-bottoms voting for the first time, and newlyweds who married in the morning and voted in the afternoon. A 110-year-old woman was carried by her great-grandson. Women frequently outnumbered the men, and some bore babies in their arms. Others appeared in their finest saris and jewelry. Sweetmeat vendors did a brisk business. When a cow gave birth to a calf outside a polling booth, everyone hailed it as a good omen. Officials...