Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something of a fixture at the Hickory Hill lunching pad since he got back from outer space), the Stew Udalls, the Orville Freemans, the Arthur Goldbergs and assorted White House aides, including Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Larry O'Brien. The guests of honor were the President's sister Patricia and her actor husband, Peter Lawford. There was, of course, the dance music of the comparable Lester Lanin...
...edification of those disgruntled by and ' South private Viet Nam's dancing, new ban on strait-laced public First Lady Mme. Nqo DInh Nhu delivered a stern lecture. "Foreigners come here not to dance, but to help Vietnamese fight Communism." said President Diem's sister-in-law and official hostess. "Dancing with death is sufficient." Besides, said she, "Asians are not used to promiscuity be tween men and women. If the Americans want to dance, they should go elsewhere." And what of Saigon's 1,200 newly unem- ployed taxi dancers? Said the mandarin...
...little (5 ft. 3 in., 105 Ibs.) woman with a big voice, Clara started singing in the choir of Philadelphia's Ebenezer Baptist Church when she was five, soon was singing in a trio with her mother and sister, formed her own group with several other singers in 1941. The best pianist in gospel, she also represents the best of the unadulterated Baptist-style singers who work in the old hymn-singing tradition. In Washington her singers appeared in flowing white robes with purple sashes from shoulder to knee. They often move into the audience slapping tambourines while singing...
...emphasis on yields drew fresh attention to the stock market's sedate sister, the bond market. Traditionally, stocks and bonds move in opposite directions. When stock prices fall, a substantial quantity of investment money generally switches out of speculative stocks and into fixed-income bonds. But this switch also sets the stage for a movement back into stocks for two reasons: 1) bond interest yields fall as demand for bonds rises, and 2) stock yields rise as the prices of stocks decline...
...doughty little Englishwoman known as Bryher-in 1920 she changed her name from Winifred Ellerman-lives in Switzerland, where she has written a series of brisk, gnomic historical novels (Roman Wall, Ruari). Bryher seems to have had a full life of missed opportunities. She is the daughter and sister of millionaires...