Word: sister-in-law
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...former Shelley Scarney who has logged more time on campaigns than either her husband or her sister-in-law. After graduating from the University of Michigan with a degree in political science, the only child of a Detroit ophthalmologist became a secretary to Vice President Nixon and traveled with his unsuccessful 1960 presidential campaign. One of her many jobs: at airports, she would call Washington, take down the day's news clippings in shorthand, then type them up on the plane on a portable manual typewriter. She also traveled with Nixon's victorious 1968 campaign. Buchanan and his future wife...
...leaves a sister-in-law, Anna Areeda of Birmingham, Michigan; two nieces, Michelle Areeda of Beverly Hills, Michigan and Marianne Taylor of Williamsburg, Virginia; and a nephew, Joseph Areeda of Los Angeles...
...bachelor who lives with his sister-in-law, Rotblat maintains a schedule that begins at his rather cluttered office at about 6 a.m. every day. Important as the Pugwash organization is to him, it is only a part of his arms-reduction work. He is also on the governing board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Despite having won the ultimate recognition of the Nobel, he is hardly ready to quit. Says Rotblat: "I see this honor not for me personally, but rather for the small group of scientists who have been working for 40 years...
...month in food stamps. Currently enrolled in a vocational school where she is learning word-processing and stress-management skills, Brown also has a Pell grant of $760 and a $1,700 federal loan to pay for her education. Sipping a Bud Light with her sister-in-law at The Bowler, Brown takes the news of the probable cuts in stride. "If they cut it all out, I would make do," says the plain-speaking brunet, who lost her long-distance-operator job at AT&T in a 1987 restructuring and has worked on and off since as a housecleaner...
...central figure of his own tumultuous life, not of some historical tableau. The author's use of language is a fresh breeze on a hot day. Shea's windbag of a father-in-law is a "self-important old streak of misery." And when Shea's sister-in-law is asked whether she loves a certain scamp and charmer, she replies, "What an idiot question! I could put the darling little fellow in my pocket and walk the earth's highways with...