Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Summer no easier. It is told in the same crosscutting flashbacks, as if unrelated strips of film were spliced together to achieve a unity of mood rather than magic. The time is 1916, and Russia is in the midst of war. The hero, Serezha, has come to visit his sister, and soon falls asleep. In a kind of Proustian reverie, he sleepwalks through events of the past-particularly through the fatefully serene prewar summer of 1914, which the young Pasternak nostalgically calls "that last summer when life appeared to pay heed to individuals, and when it was easier and more...
...second consecutive year Miss Mississippi became Miss America: Natchez' brunette, green-eyed, 20-year-old Lynda Lee Mead (36-24-36; 5 ft. 7 in.; 120 Ibs.), successor and University of Mississippi Chi Omega sorority sister of 1959's brunette Mary Ann Mobley...
...taken shrewd advantage of a wave of deflation to build one of the world's largest tanker fleets and accumulate a fortune of about $300 million. Love brought him more money in the shape of Athina (Tina) Livanos, beautiful daughter of Millionaire Shipping Czar Stavros Livanos and sister-in-law of Millionaire Shipping Czar Stavros Niarchos. The glow of the Onassis fortunes attracted the famous. Aboard his yacht Christina IV during the summer's fateful Mediterranean cruise were, in addition to the Meneghinis, Sir Winston and Lady Churchill and assorted Riviera bluebloods...
...them in those days. No one could sit in his particular chair. But though he was not outwardly soft, he had a real concern and love and ambition for us. Particularly for his sons." He wanted Henry to become a schoolteacher, like his older brother Raymond and sister Mary...
...Dinh Diem, 58, whose sternly anti-Communist National Revolutionary Movement, aided by disqualification of some antigovernment candidates, captured 78 seats in the 123-man Assembly. Six seats went to the non-Communist Left, and 39 "independents" were elected, but many of them-like the President's strong-minded sister-in-law, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu-are staunch supporters of the government, and practically none oppose Diem's pro-Western alignment...