Word: heir
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...Heir to an enormous South Texas real estate fortune, Bentsen was elected county judge at age 25, and to Congress at 27. In 1954, when he was 33, he went back home to build up his own business and did not return to Washington until 1971, as a Senator. Five years later, he ran for the Democratic presidential nomination. Hardly anyone noticed, and he dropped out of the race after a year. In the Senate, he is a leading member of the Finance Committee, and also acutely attuned to the complexities of immigration. As head of the Senate Democrats...
BORN. To Caroline, 27, Princess of Monaco, and her husband of 5½ months, Stefano Casiraghi, 23, Italian businessman: a son, their first child and heir to the principality after his uncle Prince Albert; in Monte Carlo. Name: Andréa-Albert Grace. Weight...
DECLARED DEAD. Helen Vorhees Brach, reclusive widow of Chicago Candy Tycoon Frank Brach and heir to the E.J. Brach & Sons candy company fortune, who vanished seven years ago at age 66 after a checkup at the Mayo Clinic; as of Feb. 17, 1977, the last day she was known to be alive; in Chicago. Most of the estimated $45 million estate will go to hospitals, churches and animal-welfare groups, but her will also includes a $50,000 annuity to John Matlick, 54, her longtime houseman and chauffeur, who was originally a suspect, though no evidence ever directly linked...
David died alone in a hotel room in Palm Beach, a sad and private capitulation to drugs and confusion and an unappeasable grief. The burden to which he was heir was not the burden of public service and sacrifice, but the (for him) unbearable burden of being a Kennedy. And the burden of an appetite for drugs that he could not control. Yet though his death was miserably private, being a Kennedy he also became a public example, a sermon against drugs that parents will preach to their children for months hence...
...want to be the conscience of the Democratic Party," he often says on the stump. Jackson has fashioned himself the logical heir to generations of civil rights activists, including the venerable Martin Luther King Jr. In Harlem, Jackson told cheering crowds that his showing in the New York primary would represent the resurrection 16 years after King's crucifixion...