Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week underscored the irony of the liberals' present eclipse. In 1961 John Kennedy set for the U.S. the goal of landing men on the moon by 1970; Richard Nixon, the man Kennedy defeated, presided over the attainment of that goal in 1969. By mischance, Senator Edward Kennedy, the heir to an important part of U.S. liberal leadership, found his political future seriously in doubt...
...have seemed rather prim to the rowdy French art students who studied with him at the Academie Julien. Thanks to his Methodist upbringing, Tanner refused to touch wine at first. However, he fitted in well enough with American expatriate artists and connoisseurs. He became fast friends with Department Store Heir Rodman Wanamaker and Patent Medicine Heir Atherton Curtis, both of whom collected his work. In 1899, he married a pretty white singer from San Francisco...
...less simply defined. He had had to grow up with the awesome knowledge that eventually he must don the crown. Almost from the moment of his birth, on Nov. 14, 1948, Charles has been trained for the succession. From the outset, Elizabeth and Philip were determined to give the heir as wide and worldly an education as possible within the limits of royal propriety. Beginning at eight, he was sent to school beyond the Buckingham Palace walls. His first stop was chic Hill House in Knightsbridge, where he had trouble with arithmetic. A year later, he moved on to Cheam...
...only Prince of Wales and Heir Apparent to the throne of Great Britain. You are also Charles Windsor, an intelligent and well-educated young man with a mind of your own and the opportunity to use it, if you want to. Certainly, we want you to. If you are to be a king at all, you must be our king. I do not mean that you should agree with us, for we do not agree among ourselves. But if you showed clearly that you were preoccupied by our preoccupations, that you can dance to our music and sing...
Divorced. Russell B. Long, 50, U.S. Senator since 1948 and heir to the Louisiana political fiefdom of his father, Huey ("Kingfish") Long; by Katherine Mae Long, 49; on grounds of incompatibility; after almost 30 years of marriage, two children; in Reno...