Word: sister-in-law
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...strikes all over the country. While the furor over his death rages, Buddhist leaders have ruled out further suicides until they can again reap the full propaganda advantage. Waiting in the wings, however, are three more suicide volunteers, including an aged Buddhist nun. Not intimidated, Diem's sister-in-law, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, continued to preach the hard line against the Buddhists. "If they burn 30 women, we will go ahead and clap our hands," said Mme. Nhu. "We cannot be responsible for their madness...
...joint. Actress Anita Louise specialized in throwing trays of glasses; Fashion Leader Mrs. Harcourt Amory wielded a sledge hammer on a 30-ft. red velvet-lined balustrade; Mrs. Jacob Javits timidly tossed just one champagne glass while her Senator husband looked on. But Mrs. Wellington Koo, sister-in-law of Chiang Kaishek, won the wreckers' honors. She took an ax to the wall, then to a chair and finally sank it in a sofa that the management had not even intended to destroy...
Buddhists feel that Diem's government is trying to make Catholicism the official state religion, point to the morality crusade of Diem's militantly Catholic sister-in-law, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu. In sharp variance with the easy social mores of most South Vietnamese, Mme. Nhu has banned abortion, adultery, polygamy, concubinage, divorce (except by presidential dispensation), and the sale of contraceptives...
About to set out on a tour of the U.S., Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, 67, and her son, Prince Jean, 42, arrived on the White House lawn by Marine helicopter. Sister-in-Law Eunice Shriver stood in for Jackie Kennedy as hostess in the outdoor greeting ceremony. The First Lady, advised by her doctor to stay inside when she can, peered out from an upstairs window with Caroline...
...Father, Jung the Son-but he was obsessed with the idea that there was murder in Jung's heart. Once, when Jung told Freud of a dream in which he had seen two skulls, Freud nervously demanded to know whose they were. "My wife and my sister-in-law," Jung recalls lying. "After all, I had to name someone whose death was worth the wishing...