Word: sisterly
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Every U.S. President in recent years has dutifully urged more strenuous efforts to prevent and treat mental illness. But to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, whose own oldest sister, Rosemary, is mentally retarded, the problem is particularly poignant. Last week he sent Congress the first presidential message in history that dealt solely with the twin blights of mental illness and mental retardation...
...caught embezzling $1,450,000 from the taxpayers, spent his time teaching classes on how to run a bulldozer, broadcasting as the prison's disk jockey. Now 58 and leaving on parole, Hodge was headed for Granite City to take a job as a clerk in his sister's hardware store...
...living is easy. The living is even easier at St. John, where Laurance Rockefeller bought 9,500 acres and turned it over to the U.S. Government as a national park. Nerve center of St. John is Rockefeller's famed resort named Cancel Bay Plantation, and its more recent sister developments at Turtle Bay and Trunk Bay. Here dignified fugitives from the executive suites in New York and Chicago enjoy quiet vacations with their wives in well-appointed rooms ($40 to $60). There is no golf course, but a variety of unsurpassed beaches lies just at the foot...
Frost was born in San Francisco, Calif., March 26, 1874, but, after the death of his father, he moved to Lawrence, Mass., with his mother and sister in 1885. He was co-valedictorian of Lawrence High School in 1890 with Elinor Miriam White, whom he later married...
...points of Swinburne's stunted emotional life. More horrifying is the explanation (in Lesbia Brandon) of the poet's lifelong fondness for being whipped. With subtle, sensual elegance, Swinburne records the slow, tragic perversion of a boy whose admiration for his severe tutor and love for his sister can be most suitably and directly expressed by learning to bear a birching without crying...