Word: kins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kin to Virginia Democrat Harry Flood Byrd...
...Family? Nehru's own personal favorites in the succession sweepstakes are said to be his daughter, Indira Gandhi, 44, widow of Congress Party Backbencher Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma), and acerbic, West-baiting Defense Minis ter Krishna Menon, 65. Nehru envisions his daughter, who is his closest confidante, as a stopgap Prime Minister who could keep India on an even keel until the Congress Party chose a permanent successor...
Died. Lord Nelson of Stafford, 74, British engineer and industrialist, a middle-class merchant's son (born George Horatio Nelson, no kin to the naval hero) who won his peerage by taking over the Depression-stalled English Electric Co. Ltd. in 1933, building it into a giant combine (assets: $250 million) producing everything from the Canberra jet bomber to the smallest vacuum tubes; in Stafford...
...built one of the country's strongest Tory organizations, canvassed every house in town, held special meetings for professional people who are normally the backbone of the party-and played the national anthem on the piano. His name helped: to most Britons even today, the Ted Heath (no kin) is a bandleader, and young voters occasionally attended his rallies under the impression that there would be dancing. In the 1950 election Heath squeaked in by 133 votes. By assiduous nursing he carried Bexley by 1,639 votes the following year; in 1959 his margin was 8,633, a swing...
...margins, ran with the same intensity for the right to run for the lesser office of Governor. In Massachusetts, the Kennedy family, unafraid of the slings and arrows from lesser breeds, proudly ran its youngest son through a convention gauntlet, and saw him emerge the victor. The loser was kin to the Speaker of the House, but no matter-the Kennedys know how to win and patch up. In Connecticut, always considered a bellwether state, no fewer than six Republicans spent lavishly of their blood, sweat and cash, and fought through eight ballots at a party convention for the chance...