Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family tree shook out impoverished European aristocrats. His iron-willed mother told him, "With a tennis racquet and a dinner jacket, you'll be able to go anywhere in life." Oleg Cassini, 74, needed no other guidance. He lived high, and he lasted. Intermittently a dress designer, he played polo on the Army cavalry team during World War II and basked in '40s Hollywood, married Gene Tierney, drank with Errol Flynn and romanced Grace Kelly, even as her rich parents scoured Europe for bluer blood. Cassini is best known for being couturier to Jackie Kennedy ("I want all ((my outfits...
While du Pont was Governor, his wife startled Delaware's voters and her husband's family by commuting to law school in Philadelphia, juggling classes with her duties as first lady and mother of four. Outwardly, Pete and Elise du Pont seem like opposites -- he relaxed and playful, she rather cool and proper. Their friends contend that deep down, they are very much alike. Both are efficient, highly organized and quietly but fiercely competitive. She ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1984 with a combative but haughty campaign. (One columnist, in a wicked play on her name, dubbed her "Elite Bouffant...
...Boston case concerned Joseph C. Palmer, of Newton, Mass., who smoked L& M cigarettes for 23 years. After he died of lung cancer in 1980 at age 64, Palmer's wife Ann and his mother jointly sued Liggett & Myers, charging that the company had failed to provide adequate warnings about the dangers of cigarette smoking. A U.S. district court judge ruled that the company could be held liable under Massachusetts state laws; that decision was overturned last week...
...almost never acted either. Costner was born in Compton, a working-class neighborhood in South Los Angeles. His father, part Cherokee Indian, serviced electrical lines for Southern California Edison. His mother worked for the state welfare department. When Kevin was six, his father was promoted and began moving the family around California. "I was always on the outside," he says. "I didn't feel 'there' until the end of the year, and then we'd move again." He found a niche in high school basketball and baseball. "I had the exhibitionism knocked out of me, though," he says. "During...
...early reign of Louis XIV of France. Mswati, formerly known as Prince Makhosetive, officially took the throne in April of last year. For the four previous years, Swaziland had been ruled by a regent, initially Queen Dzeliwe, one of Sobhuza's 50 or more wives, though not the mother of the current King. In 1983 Prince Mfanasibili, a powerful member of the Liqoqo, or royal advisory council, masterminded Dzeliwe's ouster and replaced her with Ntombi, mother of the young King-to-be. Mfanasibili then talked the new Queen regent into allowing him and his coterie to take political control...