Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Miller, a Kirkland resident, did more than just worry about the child. He undertook the task of bringing the boy and his mother back to Tucson, Arizona. He spent several weeks fighting bureacracy and immigration red tape, to get the child into America. Once there, Miller's father, an ear, nose and throat specialist diagnosed the child as having tonsilitis complicated by pneumonia and operated on him. Last Miller heard, the child was fine and had returned to Mexico...
...infamous "Baby M" trial were decided yesterday, and Mrs. Whitehead-Gould was definitely victorious. Her visitation rights have increased from one hour of supervised time each week, to a full day of unsupervised visitation a week. The judge's decision to award these rights to the natural mother of the child may not be unreasonable, but the hearings which led to this decision were overwhelmingly biased against career women...
...democratic institution now, property of the Federal Government. Gone are most of the Woodys, who catered to a passenger's every whim. Gone too are the silver coffeepots, the mahogany walls and chandeliers in the dining cars, and the nurses on board who would look after infants so that Mother could rest. The glamour trains of the early 20th century, the ones that ferried tycoons cross-country, stopping for fresh strawberries along the way, could not compete with the airlines or the new federal highway system. By the end, when Amtrak had to step in, service had deteriorated...
...Bingham fortune, in fact, was newly minted, and under suspicious circumstances at that. After Barry's mother died, his father married Mary Lily Flagler, 49, the widow of Standard Oil Tycoon Henry Flagler and reputedly the country's richest woman. An alcoholic who may have been addicted to morphine, Flagler died less than a year later. Flagler's relatives suspected foul play, but Brenner argues persuasively that the only certainty is that Bingham was "dangerously irresponsible toward a very sick woman...
Never underestimate a mother's devotion. Last October, when Cathy Phelps Mahone, 32, of Dallas learned that her Jordanian ex-husband had violated a court order and taken their daughter Lauren, 7, to the Middle East, she tried every possible step to get the child back. When legal channels failed, Mahone turned for help to several retired U.S. Army antiterrorist specialists and joined them in a bold "rescue mission...