Word: kinsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cattle & the Canal. The son of a judge, Robles displays none of the big money usually associated with political success in Panama. Though his kinsman Chiari is one of the country's richest men, Robles himself lives with his schoolteacher wife and three children in a mortgaged, three-bedroom house in Panama City. He held a string of government jobs before Chiari appointed him Minister of Government and Justice in 1960. Panamanians quickly found him to be an honest, extremely determined administrator. When he noticed that stray cattle were causing a number of serious auto accidents and that nobody...
Like any normal, healthy Kennedy kinsman, the President's brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, has political ambitions. Having successfully launched the Peace Corps, Shriver would like to go onward and upward to elective office in Illinois...
...tell, such as Malcolm MacLeod's: "I went to London to be hanged and came [back] down in a chaise with Miss Flora Macdonald." That young girl, immortalized for helping the Prince escape, became the travelers' hostess-"a little woman" of 51, married to a Macdonald kinsman and about to emigrate to North Carolina. She gave Dr. Johnson the same bed that the Prince had slept in. It inspired in him, he announced afterwards, no "ambitious thoughts...
...voluminous research on "The Correct Use of Seaweed as an Article of Diet," worked on a walking stick designed to squirt vitriol at mad dogs, planned an illustrated pamphlet entitled The Twenty-seven Postures of Sir George R. Sitwell. Projects like these ran in the family. A Sitwell kinsman went to the trouble of having his coat of arms carefully inscribed on his food...
...corps of course, and maybe with an eye to Illinois, too. Last week he forehandedly assigned an aide to "think about all the possible problems we could have anywhere and see if we can head them off." All of which could pose a "possible problem" for his kinsman in the White House: with Shriver interested in Illinois, Brother Ted making political motions in Massachusetts and Brother Bob already in Government, the President may have to decide how many Kennedys and in-laws can be in political life at any one time...