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...rise in welfare and unemployment rolls, promised jobs for all citizens. He had a little trouble laying down McGovern's tax-the-rich line and in the next breath explaining his own wealth. In Boston, Shriver was asked if he might surrender some of his own inheritance in keeping with the McGovern proposal to increase inheritance taxes. "I didn't inherit a nickel. . .I'm just as bad off as you are; maybe I'm worse off," deadpanned Shriver. "Nobody is going to take anything away from me, because I don't have anything...
Eboli nevertheless became one of three men to inherit the command of the family when Genovese died in 1969. Of the others, Gerardo Catena has since been imprisoned for refusing to answer questions from a New Jersey crime commission, and Mike Miranda is too old, at 78, to want to wield top power. Eboli's murder gives the aging Carlo Gambino effective control of the Genovese family...
...emotional upheaval of traditional burial rites. "My mother's funeral was more like a circus than a day of reflection on death," says Mrs. Joyce Winslow, 25, of Los Angeles. "I want more to come out of my death than just bills." In choosing which institution will inherit their remains, most people pick one with which they have been associated. But whim is also a factor. A New York writer selected Harvard, he quips, because his parents always wanted him to go there and "this is the only way I could...
...Freud, fled 34 years ago. Other speakers insisted that the tribute was hers alone, for her work in child psychoanalysis. Anna Freud felt otherwise. "Academic honors are not usually hereditary," she said in the dry, careful diction she uses with her youthful patients, "but I feel that herewith I inherit my father's part...
...visits the ruined demesne of Uncle L, who is a mean and misanthropic 92 yoked to an equally mean woman who wants to inherit his land. Having no re gard for cattle, Uncle L has a herd of camels instead, along with spotted pigs, molting turkeys and a buffalo cow. Un cle L is a living figment - as well as a caricature - of the old, wild American dream. He still expects to encounter his hero, Emiliano Zapata, before he dies...