Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Voice of America just couldn't get on the right wave length to catch the ear of Congress. It had high hopes that the Senate Appropriations Committee would restore what its sister committee in the House had taken away: 90% of the $97.5 million the Voice had asked to build new stations for world-wide broadcasts. Instead the Senate committee last week voted to uphold the cut. Like their colleagues in the House, the Senators were not satisfied with the accounting for money already spent, the overall quality of the Voice's operation, and the way the Voice...
...miles to the north, a smaller crowd kept its eyes fixed on the drawn blinds behind which the new Queen awaited her lord's summors. Close to sunset, Narriman, resplendent in Paris-styled white satin, finally emerged on the arm of the King's eldest sister Fawzia and entered a bright red Rolls-Royce with black fenders. As the red Rolls headed down the street toward Cairo and the waiting King, it was joined by a motorcade of five red motorcycles, three red jeeps, two red Cadillacs and eleven more subdued cars...
...carrying two small coffins that had been reverently exhumed there, moved a solemn little procession. Slowly it wound its way through the streets to the basilica of Our Lady of Fátima. Inside, in the center of the chancel, were reburied the bones of Francisco Marto and his sister Jacinta...
...main reason why the town of Wellesley features neither bars nor movie houses is securely hidden from public criticism in the small, white head of one of the most unusual women ever to be connected with Wellesley College. She is Helen Temple Cooke, founder of Wellesley's junior sister college, Pine Mauor, and uncrowned queen of the town...
...Producer Small was in for more grief. A libel action was planned by Silent Star Alice Terry, who, like the movie's heroine, played opposite Valentino in a film directed by her husband, the late Rex Ingram. Another suit was announced by Valentino's family-his brother, sister and nephew-who want redress for invasion of privacy and unauthorized use of the Valentino name...