Word: inheritence
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Stresses & Strains. The new rulers in the Kremlin inherited with Stalin's empire all the strains and stresses which assail its granite exterior; they did not inherit the cement of Stalin's myth and mystique. Now, on both sides of the great Red wall, the deadly, cold-eyed watch has begun-the Communists alert to prevent any fissures in their monolith; the West alert to find even hairline cracks through which to enter wedges...
...Connecticut's supreme court ruled that James Garrett Plunkett, 49, who killed his wealthy wife during a quarrel in 1949, may legally inherit her estate. Under state law, a convicted murderer is prohibited from inheriting a victim's valuables, but Plunkett was convicted of the lesser crime of manslaughter. Since he is serving a term of only five to eight years, he may be released from prison by 1956; as his wife's sole beneficiary, he stands to receive...
...Social Whirl. She will inherit a rigid and taxing social schedule into which she will be initiated at once. She must appear, smiling as befits a public darling, at not one but two inaugural balls. Her costume, however, will be far less regal than that of President Tyler's second wife, "the Rose of Long Island," who received on a dais, wearing a crownlike headdress of bugles: Mamie's glittering, wide-skirted inaugural gown, designed by Nettie Rosenstein and purchased from Texas' Neiman-Marcus, is of pale rose poult-de-soie, bespangled by 2,000 rhinestones...
Although many cardinals inherit robes from their predecessors, the new official change will mean a saving of $1,000 for a prelate who has to outfit himself from scratch. Specifically, the Pope has ordered : 1) that the fantail on both purple and red cassocks be eliminated, 2) that purple robes, which are used in time of mourning and during Lent and Advent, be made of wool instead of silk (the scarlet formal dress will continue to be made of silk), 3) that the six-yard train on the cappa magna, the long ceremonial cape which cardinals wear, be shortened...
...most acute in elementary schools where 160,000 qualified teachers are needed to compensate for retirement losses, increased enrollment, and those whom educators call "woefully untrained." High schools are fairly well off at present, but as the "war babies" reach them in the next few years, they will inherit the problem of the elementary schools, the report said...