Word: kinfolks
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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...
...climax of it all came at a Christmas-day picture-taking session for two busloads of newsmen on the lawn in front of the white clapboard and stone L.B.J. ranch house in Johnson City, Texas. The President mustered more than a score of Baineses, Johnsons and other friends and kinfolk, lined them up and got them to look real pretty for the cameramen. He introduced a few: 'This is Aunt Jessie, Mrs. Jessie Hatcher, who did all my cooking, washing and sewing for me when I was in school in Houston. And I was in her dining room when...
...shawls, plus whisky from Scotland, cutlery from Germany and nylons from the U.S. From the Caribbean and Central America down through the Andes to Chile, they serve as supermarket, liquor store and miniature Macy's all rolled into one. In Guatemala City, market women and their kids and kinfolk make up 10% of the capital's 400,000 population; Lima's markets count 7,000 women; and in the island nation of Jamaica, nearly all the food-distribution system revolves around "higgler" women...