Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lady Bird, who turned 51 this week, views her role as First Lady of the U.S. with a homemaker's eye: "I will try to be balm, sustainer and sometimes critic for my husband. I will try to have my children look at this job with all the reverence it is due, to get from it the knowledge that their unique vantage point gives them, and to retain the lightheartedness to which every teen-ager is entitled. For my own self, my role must emerge in deeds, not words...
...recalled how her husband had given Baker $12,000 in February 1960 to buy 3,600 shares of stock in Milwaukee's Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp., then split a $54,000 profit with Baker 13 months later. Wisconsin's Republican Representative John W. Byrnes was another who bought that stock; his 100 shares, for which he paid $2,300, are now worth around $24,000. Byrnes, who had helped Mortgage Guaranty get a tax-relief ruling from the Internal Revenue Service, insisted that the stock deal was not a conflict of interest. Still, Byrnes had promised to sell...
Instant Residence. At the start all seems wondrously easy. The average wife who hates her average husband and has an average competent lawyer, can get on a plane to El Paso, say, and be back home the next day-divorced. From El Paso she crosses the border to Juarez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. She makes her way past bars and tacky tourist shops to the Municipal Palace, where she meets a Mexican lawyer by prearrangement, signs the great registration ledger of the clerk of the court, pays one dollar, and gets a slip of paper certifying that...
...divorce in his home state simply by bringing it to court. The practice until recently has been to arrange for two Mexican lawyers in Juárez, one with power of attorney for the absent spouse. The judge also incorporates into the divorce the Stateside agreement in which husband and wife settled property, alimony, and custody of children...
...Fraud upon the State." The chief practical safeguard is that most Mexican divorces have the consent of both husband and wife, and few people back out later. But when third parties-disinherited children, later spouses, pension fund administrators-have an interest in the case, they may have grounds for successful court attacks...