Word: kinfolks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Students and teachers who already swear by Arthur Frommer's penny-pinching guidebook Europe on $5 a Day will escape most of the taxes, as will tourists who visit kinfolk in the old country. Though details have not yet been worked out completely, the tax for average daily expenditures above $10 may come to a flat 20%, or it may go as high as 40% for everything over...
Even so, the Viet Cong recruiters have their standards. Any man under 4 ft. 10 in. is rejected, as are those with kinfolk fighting for the government, those with such ailments as stomach trouble, tuberculosis, asthma or an amputated trigger finger. To avoid infiltration by government spies, one captured document enjoined against recruiting former ARVN volunteers, Roman Catholics, and "those young men whose father or mother were killed by the Revolution, landlords' sons, and those whose parents, brothers and sisters were tyrants, opponents and distributors of the Revolution...
Coleman's friends and kinfolk had gathered in misty Hayneville (pop. 300 whites, 700 Negroes) for his trial on the charge of killing Jonathan M. Daniels, 26, an Episcopal seminarian from Keene, N.H. The victim and the Rev. Richard Morrisroe, 26, a Catholic priest from Chicago, had been among 28 persons arrested last Aug. 14 while picketing three stores in nearby Fort Deposit that allegedly discriminate against Negroes. Jailed in Hayneville, the workers were abruptly released without bond a week later, on the same day that their cases were transferred to federal court. Shortly afterward, in front...
Probably the only patients who must necessarily be deprived of the comfort of kinfolk are the growing numbers who are sent after surgery to ultramodern recovery rooms from which visitors are barred because of the danger of infection. In most cases, the presence of the family is a good thing. Even if the patient does not know his relatives are there, it is good for them to have the opportunity to learn to accept the imminent loss of a loved one. But relatives may need to be coached in deathside manners. If they have not already faced their own emotional...
Aside from kinfolk, no man was closer to Jack Kennedy than Theodore Chaikin Sorensen. The son of a Nebraska liberal who was campaign manager for Senator George Norris, Ted Sorensen made Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Nebraska, graduated first in his class at law school and went to work in Washington. Late in 1952, Freshman Senator Kennedy hired Sorensen to help write his speeches and magazine articles. The two men were drawn together by a mutual fascination with politics and history, and it was Sorensen who compiled the research for Profiles in Courage...