Word: pol
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Like Honey Fitz, Rose appears to have got pretty much what she wanted. That included-against the mayor's better judgment-marriage to Joseph P. Kennedy, son of another Boston pol. As the youngest bank president in the U.S. (at 25), a multimillionaire by his 30s and ambassador to the Court of St. James's under Franklin Roosevelt, Joe Kennedy gave Rose greater glory than her father ever had-and she knew it. The two were bound together by the same determination. As this book makes clear, though, Rose's self-confidence outdistanced her husband...
...jail, I didn't mind it at all." For Dewi Sukarno, 30, widow of the late President Sukarno of Indonesia, it was a helping hand at the pot-au-feu from Public Relations Man Jean-Claude Dauzonne in Paris. On a shopping spree in Rome, Dutch Actress Talitha Pol was glad to lean on the arm-not to mention the banknotes presumably stuffed in the shoulder bag-of Husband Eugene Paul Getty, son of the oil billionaire...
...Church of the Redeemer in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and two of the women wept almost continuously. Otherwise, we represented a diverse group: a married couple, an internal revenue employee, a few housewives, a physical-ed instructor, a secretary, a lawyer, a college student, and a commercial artist with a polío-crippled arm. Some of us had been attracted by the excellent reputation of the group leader, Sylvia Evans, a psychologist and therapist with the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. Some had registered (fee only $30 for the weekend) at the suggestion of their ministers or their therapists...
Instead, he favors the creation of a federal board to assess the cost of pol-lution and ban devices which might cause pollution...
Future Like the Past. After 30 years of studying war and its causes, Gaston Bouthoul, director of Paris' Institut Francais de Polémologie (from the Greek polemos or war, and logos, study), confesses that he is no nearer an understanding of it than when he began. What he sees in the future is a repetition of the past. Bouthoul foresees war over Siberia, for example, as China increasingly competes with Russia for one of the world's last unexploited land masses; or in the mystifying "encirclement psychosis," as he calls it, manifested by the world...