Word: heir
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...Boren as homosexuals. In Boren's case, it was an old charge-and one that he denied during his Senate campaign by publicly swearing, on a white-bound Bible, that he was heterosexual. Barkouras took no further action, but a few weeks later Jack Anthony, 28, an heir to an Oklahoma department-store fortune and a student of Barkouras', was arrested at 4 a.m. while changing a wiretap connected to Sternlofs home phone. Soon afterward, traveling in seven cars, 14 FBI agents went to Barkouras' foundation to seize records. At a preliminary hearing an assistant to Patton...
Djilas has a unique perspective on Tito's life, having helped him make Yugoslavia a communist state in the 1940s and 1950s, before they split in 1954. Moreover, many had considered Djilas to be Tito's heir-apparent. But since 1954, he has spent a total of nine years in jail for advocating democratic changes in the political process and is still unable to travel outside of Yugoslavia. His theory of personality determinism, however, merely strengthens the argument that Tito-leading a nation caught in an American-Soviet vise-centralized power in Yugoslavia for the good of the country. Yugoslavia...
...thrust upon other comrades, particularly his longtime partner Alexei Kosygin, who died in late December, less than two months after his resignation as Premier. Now more than ever, the gerontocratic leadership of the U.S.S.R. is dominated by Brezhnev appointees and protégés, with neither an obvious heir nor a challenger in their midst...
Melvin and Howard. An American dreamer, Melvin Dummar, goes for the big score, insisting he is the heir of Howard Hughes. Jonathan Demme directed the screwiest and most original movie of 1980, and deserves a better commercial fate than he has so far received...
They have one compelling argument in heir favor. This year the lawmakers passed a bill calling for $20 billion in spending for fusion research over the next two decades. Why not hedge that bet with a few million dollars at least to investigate another idea that may be every bit as promising...