Word: heir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decade the Viet Nam veteran has been portrayed in films and on TV as a doped-up maniac itching to mow down strangers. More and more, says Horton, the public is "seeing vets not as baby killers but, at worst, as dupes-and, at best, as people who did heir patriotic duty." Yet the veterans remain wary. "The shift in America's mood is a subtle one," says Steve Bailey, a Houston doctor and volunteer counselor of Viet Nam veterans. "The vets I talk to are waiting to see if the feeling endures past Armistice...
Spreading a blush over the pastel patina of Palm Beach, Fla., the titillating divorce-court battle between Newspaper Heir Peter Pulitzer, 52, and his estranged wife Roxanne, 31, drew to an end last week. Pulitzer, accused of having an incestuous relationship with his 26-year-old daughter, counterpunched with testimony from a family retainer suggesting that Roxanne had had a lesbian affair with Jacqueline Kimberly, 32, the wife of Kleenex Heir James Kimberly, 76. Steve Anderson, a crewman on the Pulitzers' 75-ft. yacht, stated that he had once spotted four female legs protruding from...
...petition recommends ending "aid to Israel that enables the government of Israel to wage war in Lebanon, to establish settlements in Palestinian land and to deprive the Palestinian people of heir civil and political right...
...evidence does not quite bear out their theory. It is true that several of the very biggest spenders lost. Among them: Republicans William Clements and Lewis Lehrman, who shelled out around $12.5 million each on the Texas and New York gubernatorial races; Democrat Mark Dayton, a department-store heir who laid out $6.9 million in an attempt to become a U.S. Senator from Minnesota, and Democrat Adam Levin, 33, a lawyer who poured as much as $1.5 million into his effort to win a House seat in New Jersey...
...Missouri state senator and well-known talk-show host, has campaigned ceaselessly against incumbent Republican John Danforth's support of Reagan's economic programs, an approach that is going down well in the traditionally Democratic and fiscally floundering Show Me State. Danforth, 46, an Episcopal priest, heir to the Ralston Purina fortune and Missouri attorney general for eight years before becoming a Senator in 1976, is outspending Woods 2 to 1 and trading on his enormous personal popularity in the state. "Everybody likes Danforth," concedes Missouri Democratic Senator Thomas Eagleton. As recently as last month, Danforth held...