Word: hilda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never thought his personal character was without blemish. What he has done is the job we chose him to do, and overall he's done it superbly. Despite what Krauthammer says, Clinton's victory may turn out to be less Pyrrhic than Pyrex--long-lasting and heat-proof. HILDA GRANT JONES Hallowell, Maine...
Born in 1925, Margaret Hilda Roberts was an enormously industrious girl. The daughter of a Grantham shopkeeper, she studied on scholarship, worked her way to Oxford and took two degrees, in chemistry and law. Her fascination with politics led her into Parliament at age 34, when she argued her way into one of the best Tory seats in the country, Finchley in north London. Her quick mind (and faster mouth) led her up through the Tory ranks, and by age 44 she got settled into the "statutory woman's" place in the Cabinet as Education Minister, and that looked like...
...whose life sometimes seems dominated by what he refers to as "tax implications," has worried all summer about how he can take advantage of more than just the capital-gains provision of the tax-reduction package. So far, he's worked out a plan to adopt both his Aunt Hilda and the gardener as a way of getting the full tax credit for children, but he's terribly concerned about whether the way the law is written makes it more sensible for him to stay alive for another 10 years, until the estate-tax provisions take full effect...
Death is final--no pain, no measured time in which to reflect, and worse, no payment of debt to society: no punishment. Where is the justice in that? Decades of confinement, imprisoned with only yourself and your conscience, a life without joy, love or laughter. That's true punishment. HILDA B. CLASSON New York City...
BORN: Dec. 5, 1927, Loganville EDUCATION: U of Maryland, B.S., 1953; Western Maryland College, M.Ed., 1956 FAMILY: Wife, Hilda; two children RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: Army, 1946-48 OCCUPATION: Public-school superintendent POLITICAL CAREER: Dallastown school-board president, 1964-67; U.S. House, 1974- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 96, Jacobus...