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...only have deepened as he saw his family cut down by firing squad and assassin: his younger brother Maximilian as Napoleon Ill's cat's paw in Mexico, his son Rudolf as a result of a crime passionnel suicide pact at Mayerling, his wife at Geneva, his nephew Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo...
...temporary home, a modest but well-guarded house trailer. This is no easy matter to begin with, but Ballantine and his five-thumbed cronies make it even harder than necessary. The gang includes a giggly jet-setter, an ex-FBI agent who is Al G. Karp's nephew, a screwy mother and her manic son, and a black safecracker who wants to use his cut of the profits to run for mayor of Anaheim...
John D. Rockefeller IV, 37. To his critics in West Virginia, Native New Yorker "Jay" Rockefeller is a suspect Democrat from a Republican family-and a carpetbagger to boot. Still, two years after arriving in Appalachia as a poverty worker, the nephew of Nelson Rockefeller and grandson of John D. Jr. easily won a seat in the state house of delegates, in 1968 was elected West Virginia's secretary of state. Handsome, rich, well educated (Exeter, Harvard, Yale) and well wed (his father-in-law is G.O.P. Senator Charles Percy), Rockefeller lost his bid for governorship...
...that time, changes from the previous era of State Street Research and Management Co. began to surface. Bok, Putnam and Cabot--who is the nephew of former treasurer Paul C. Cabot '21--are part of a new generation in Harvard financial affairs. As such they are now more daring and interested in innovation than their predecessors at State Street. When Cabot was named, it became apparent that the younger generation was preparing to embark on some bold new ideas for financial management...
...White House gumshoe, Anthony Ulasewicz, a former New York City policeman, conducted 54 investigations for the Administration, some seemingly legitimate but others highly questionable. For example, according to a cryptic memo, he investigated allegations that the President's nephew, Donald A. Nixon, had been "involved in improper conduct, that drugs were involved, and love-making groups at Three Forks, Sierra Madre. Also concern of bribery." There was no indication of what Ulasewicz turned up. But in another case he looked into a "wild party" supposedly attended by Senator Edward Kennedy and decided that the allegation was "unfounded...