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...court has yet tackled the problem of inheritance rights. In many states, illegitimate children of parents who die without a will can inherit property only from the mother, not the father. The best solution may be for parents to adopt the child and provide for him in a will. But many parents balk at adoption because it might become public knowledge; impotence and sterility are hardly matters that husbands care to reveal...
...expresses liberal sentiments toward the blacks; in practice, his enlightened principles are expressed by going on a three-day drunk with his ex-servant, who rides off with a hangover -and the chandelier. Thus Novelist Mclntosh points up his pessimistic theorem about the future of Africa. The blacks will inherit nothing of value from association with the whites, who will themselves be corrupted...
...charming child, Barnaby," says dear old Uncle as he smiles (or is he merely showing his teeth?) at his twelve-year-old orphan nephew. "But five million dollars charming, you're not." What Uncle means to say in his usual genial way is that since he stands to inherit Barnaby's estate if Barnaby should have a fatal accident, he intends to make sure that Barnaby has a fatal accident-fast...
...ratified by a three-fifths vote of the Cortes. If the Cortes does not approve the candidate, it will then pick a temporary regent to reign until a king can finally be chosen. The king, in turn, will inaugurate a royal succession in which the first male heir will inherit the throne. If normal custom is followed, the first king will be Don Juan de Borbon y Battenberg, 53, son of Spain's last king, who is now living at Estoril in Portugal and is spending his life preparing to become a constitutional monarch...
...Brown is re-elected, he will encounter these same problems, but Democrats eager to inherit his seat will want to place their party -- which to voters means Brown -- in the best possible light. If Reagan is elected, Californians will simply have to do without state government for four years...