Word: sister-in-law
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...scenes evoked grisly memories of the Manson killings. In August, Retired Insurance Broker Paul Corbett, his wife and sister-in-law were found dead, each shot in the back of the head with a .25-cal. gun, in the pantry of Corbett's $100,000 home in the fashionable Chicago suburb of Barrington Hills. A fourth victim, Corbett's stepdaughter, was dead in the blood-spattered kitchen, shot in the chest with a .30-cal. weapon. A month later Machine Designer Stephen Hawtree, his wife and teen-age son were executed in a similar fashion in the basement...
...actors manage to play success fully both for parody and poignancy. Especially dexterous are Janice Rule as the requisite dragon lady and Frank Finlay and Billie Whitelaw as Eddie's brother and sister-in-law. Albert Finney shows again that he is an actor of infinite resource, charm and cunning. But the part does not really test him, does not force him to extend himself and take chances. For most actors it is quite enough to be good. From Finney one has a right to expect more. · Jay Cocks
...been fired, but his unanticipated severance pay is a nervous breakdown. His wife Edna (Lee Grant) goes to work, and that bruises his pride further. His psychoanalyst has died, taking $23,000 of Mel's money with him. He has a visitation of locusts-his two sisters, a sister-in-law and his older brother Harry (Vincent Gardenia)-who tell him that the family is determined to provide "X-number of dollars" to assist him. The attempt to agree on what X-number of dollars is in cash supplies the evening with one of its comic apexes...
After hearing repeated pleas from a number of wives last year, including his sister-in-law, Mrs. Frankie Ford, whose husband has been missing in action since 1968, McLin researched the problems. He found that Florida laws provided for situations in which a spouse is dead, mentally incompetent or absent by his own volition. There was no category for absent U.S. servicemen. As a result, wives who wanted to transact important family business were often helpless if their husbands had full or partial title to the property involved...
Divorced. Amir Abass Hoveida, 52, Premier of Iran since the 1965 assassination of his predecessor Hassan AH Mansur; and Leyla Emami Hoveida, 38, Mansur's sister-in-law; after five years of marriage, no children; in Teheran...