Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Robert Allerton, 91, philanthropist and horticulturist, heir to a Chicago stockyards fortune who gave $ 1,500,000 to the Chicago Art Institute and another $1,000,000 to Honolulu's Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, but mainly devoted himself to his bachelor estate on Kauai, Hawaii, which he turned into perhaps the world's finest tropical garden with the help of Landscape Architect John Gregg, 64, his constant companion, whom he legally adopted as a son in 1959 after the repeal of an Illinois law preventing one adult from adopting another; in Lihue, Hawaii...
Died. Richard Joshua Reynolds, 58, playboy heir to a king-size slice of his father's tobacco empire (Camel, Winston, Salem), who scorned the family trade to become a taxi driver, deck hand, aviator, ship owner, horse breeder and sometime Democratic politician, managing meanwhile to run through $10 million of his $25 million inheritance settling three marriages; of chronic pulmonary emphysema; in Lucerne, Switzerland, 36 hours before his fourth wife gave birth to a daughter...
...Problems. Almost certainly the man behind increasing leftist intrigue is "Mr. Double O"-Oginga Odinga, formerly Kenyatta's Home Minister, who wound up as Vice President in Kenyatta's new Cabinet, a post that theoretically limits his powers but in the eyes of most Kenyans makes him heir to Kenyatta. Odinga is a well-entrenched leader of Kenyatta's KANU Party, which is now the only one in Parliament after the country "voluntarily" turned itself into a one-party state; he regularly visits Peking, and he receives Russian and Red Chinese financial support. Perhaps only tough, able...
...Though neither an outstanding student nor athlete, he mixes well, and his public image is that of a healthy boy with a mop of hair that defies comb and brush. When it was suggested that he has a Beatle's haircut, His Royal Highness Charles Philip Arthur George, heir apparent to the British throne, grinned and said, "You mean the Beatles have a Prince Charles...
...Murray Schisgal. Three morose souls are raining laughs all over Broadway's Booth Theater. They suffer all the fashionable ills and itches that modern mind and flesh have fallen heir to. They go through an inferno of cocktail-party griefs, a slapstick, tongue-wagging, satirical jaunt of crippling hilarity...