Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Will. Perhaps to fill the family void, Charlene became a good golfer, an excellent horsewoman and a more than passable tennis player. Her sister Irene, four years older, chose quite a different form of compensation...
...point of state history. Normally a quiet, representational landscapist, Kerciu adopted the style of Manhattan Artists Jasper Johns and Larry Rivers, who are fascinated by flags and labels. Kerciu painted a big Confederate flag and plastered it with the slogans of the riots: "Impeach JFK." "Would you want your sister to marry one?" "[Scratched-out word] the NAACP." He hung the painting in a one-man show at the university's Fine Arts Center...
Michael Straight. 46, has always had more cash, conscience and energy than he knew quite what to do with. Scion of one of America's wealthiest families (his mother was Harry Payne Whitney's sister), he has for years managed the family fortune with one hand and with the other espoused an assortment of causes, mostly forlorn. For 13 years he was editor, publisher and underwriter of the New Republic Magazine. In 1956 he resigned and turned to fiction...
Matson still has its troubles. Despite hoopla promotion, its two Honolulu-bound passenger liners lost $2,200,000 last year. Now the Lurline is down with a nervous turbine. Matson would like to retire her, or to shift her or her sister, the Matsonia, away from Hawaii to the subsidized South Seas run. At a price of $1,500,000 in wage increases this year, Matson has bought labor peace at least through mid-1964. President Powell is wary of pushing the unions too hard with automation plans, and he does not believe in bragging too much about the future...
Died. Marguerite Skirvin Tyson, 58, sister of famed Washington Hostess Perle Mesta, coheiress of an oil fortune, a warm, friendly woman who collected French antiques, raised champion miniature poodles, and tended to the details of the parties that she quietly co-hostessed with her sister; in Washington...