Word: sister-in-law
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...chaotic Laos, engaged Diem's army in pitched fighting for a week. Pleading the Communist threat, Diem has ruled with rigged elections, a muzzled press, and political re-education camps that now hold 30,000. His key-and prosperous-advisers are four brothers and a pretty sister-in-law. The twin frustrations of dictatorship and an unending war eventually turned the paratroopers to revolt...
...free to fly. When rescue workers recovered his body from the wreckage, they found it strapped in the right-hand cockpit seat. Despite the fog, Donald Chesher had apparently turned over the pilot's seat to a less-experienced man: Copilot Howard Perovich, 30 (whose mother and sister-in-law died with him in the crash...
...gasp when she was introduced as the mother of seven children. Eunice drew sober attention with a summary of her brother's war record, his qualifications for the presidency ("It would take more than Jimmy Hoffa to scare my brother"), and took on the job of outlining Sister-in-Law Jackie's qualifications for First Lady: "She's 31, speaks five languages, is very much interested in children. She would make the White House a gay and pleasant place. There would be life and laughter...
Replying to reports that she is on chilly terms with her imperial sister-in-law, ex-Princess Suga, an emperor's daughter who six months ago married a bank clerk, insisted that she has never felt closer to Crown Princess Michiko, a mill owner's daughter who married the heir to an empire. Suga, who is delighted with the freedom she has found outside the palace as plain Mrs. Hisanaga Shimazu, sympathizes with Michiko in her struggle to observe palace protocol, feels that Michiko is "working too hard" in her efforts to live up to her role. Suga...
...older brother Harold died at 23 of tuberculosis; Arthur died at seven of tuberculous meningitis; Donald is a California dairyman, and Navyman Edward a military science instructor at the University of Washington. *Standing from left: A brother-in-law of Nixon's mother, Russell Harrison; sister-in-law, Mrs. Edward Nixon; brother, Navy Lieut. Edward Nixon; uncle, Dr. Ernest Nixon; aunt, Mrs. Oscar Marshburn; uncle, Oscar Marshburn; sister-in-law, Mrs. Donald Nixon; brother, Donald Nixon; Pat Nixon's sister-in-law, Mrs. William Ryan; brother-in-law, Matthew Bender; brother-in-law, William Ryan. Seated from left...