Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jack Gelber's screenplay provides a loose framework in which the actors develop their roles. What symbolism he introduces is entirely appropriate. For instance, Cowboy dresses all in white, like an angel, and he brings with him Sister Salvation (Barbara Winchester), a little old lady with whom he has allied himself as protection against the police. While the addicts file in for their fixes, she delivers a little sermon, but the salvation she offers is as insubstantial as Cowboy...
...getting hard to tell Jack Ruby's lawyers without a scorecard. Only a few days after Melvin Belli was fired, Houston's wealthy Criminal Lawyer Percy Foreman, hired to replace Belli, got annoyed with family kibitzers and quit. To replace Foreman, Ruby's brothers and sister hired Professor Hubert Winston Smith, 56, head of the University of Texas law school's Law-Science Institute. Smith said he would charge no fee. His first pronouncement was that he would ask the court to permit a new series of medical and mental tests on Jack Ruby...
WHEN Howard Brennan Johnson was six, he went to work for his father, the founder of the ice-cream chain; he and Sister Dorothy, 8, beamed down from billboards proclaiming that "We love our daddy's ice cream." Now 32, Johnson still works for Daddy-but he is about to become his own boss. Last week he announced that in June Howard Dearing Johnson, now 67, will retire as chief executive of the nation's largest restaurant chain-675 restaurants, 175 motor lodges and annual sales of $127 million-to let his son take over. Young Johnson went...
Charlotte became Grand Duchess in 1919 after her elder sister, Marie-Adélaïde, was forced to abdicate for her pro-German sentiments during World War I. Charlotte quickly indicated her own, very different feelings by reviewing U.S. troops with General Pershing at her side; ever since, she has been on the friendliest terms with the U.S. Among her 320,000 people, she lived quietly with her husband, Prince Félix of Bourbon-Parma, a descendant of Louis XIV, and her six children. Charlotte's favorite pastime was growing roses, and the Vatican awarded...
...recent years, the Grand Duchess has been delegating most of her duties (mainly ceremonial), to her oldest son, Prince Jean, 43, who is married to the sister of Belgium's King Baudouin. Last week, at 68, Charlotte announced to her government ministers that she would abdicate in Jean's favor. "Workers can retire at 65," Charlotte said, "so why shouldn...