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...distributed among his surviving relatives, including spouses, children, grandchildren, parents, brothers and sisters, their children and the decedent's cousins-on past fourth cousins. Kruse had never married, and his spinster sister Ann had died years before. After long digging, the bankers finally traced his nearest kin: six cousins, whom Ottawa County Probate Judge Fred Miles duly named Kruse's heirs last June...
...ness of the state, and the state, of course, was Louis. He rode often to the wars and received progress reports every day on the building at Versailles. He rode to hounds, but was less diligent in reading dispatches from the front; some bastard of his-or some other kin-was always there to look after the fighting. The best of the lot of left-handed royalty was the Due de Vendome, who "at the age of 54 looked like an old, fat, dirty, diseased woman" and was syphilitic to boot ("his nose quite eaten away"), though on the battlefield...
...Heaps of kudos on the Canada cover story [Sept. 30]: informative, illuminating and timely. I hope some conservationists in the U.S. read between the lines and instigate some cooperative move with kin dred interest in Canada. Booms are good, but at least a dab or two of that grand hunk of real estate needs protection...
...foremost American military analysts by assuming the burden of a ground war between Asians in Asia." At home, the Constitution was being eroded by "the swollen powers of the President" and the "judge-made legislation" of the Supreme Court. The Great Society had become "both kith and kin" to the total welfare state...
...week in Austin, practically on the President's front porch, 8,000 Texas farm laborers and sympathizers campaigning for a $1.25 minimum wage burst into a spontaneous cheer: "Viva Kennedy!" In Boston, a crowd of 5,000 turned out to rubberneck as Bobby and a phalanx of Kennedy kin, including Massachusetts' Senator Teddy, showed up to dedicate the $24 million John Fitzgerald Kennedy Federal Office Building...