Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early this week, with the decks presumably cleared, Kennedy planned to fly to Washington for a party at the home of his sister Jean, to New York for another round of meetings, and then by midweek back to the capital. His exhausted camp followers could only hope that he would stand still long enough to get himself sworn in as the President...
From birth to young womanhood, Jackie and her younger sister Lee (now married to her second husband, Prince Stanislas Radziwill, a Polish nobleman turned London businessman) lived according to a social pattern as undeviating as a cotillion. Winters were spent in a Park Avenue apartment (where Black Jack indulgently permitted Jackie to keep a pet rabbit in the bathtub) while Jackie attended fashionable Chapin School. At six, Jackie had her own pony, by twelve she was riding in horse shows, and her love of horses is abiding. As Jackie and Lee grew older, they met their beaux under the Biltmore...
...Norway's Princess Astrid, 28, followed a torchlight procession into a small, red-brick Lutheran church outside town to wed prosperous Haberdasher Johan Martin Ferner, 33, and to be read out of royalty. The procession, which was led through 10°-below-zero cold by Astrid's sister, Princess Ragnhild (who had married a commoner in the same church seven years before), included uncommon cousins from three European kingdoms, among them a sympathetic Princess Margaret of Britain. Last came Astrid and her father, King Olav V, who had originally objected to his daughter's cup-winning yachtmate...
...Wellington sat down to wait, what he presumed was Eugenie's little sister descended upon him. She stepped on his white buck shoes, untied his bow tie, mussed his hair, poked her fist in his eye, and jumped in his lap. "Get off me, kid, you shed," Wellington hissed...
Matter of Pride. Ideally, Nyerere argues, all four states should reach Tanganyika's stage of elected chief ministers, then federate and become free. To the amazement of other African nationalists, Nyerere would even hold up Tanganyika's final independence until her sister states have caught up. Says he: "It would break my heart to celebrate independence for Tanganyika alone." Nyerere's reason is simple: as a matter of national pride, newly independent states might be reluctant to yield new sovereignty to a federation. "After we've taken our seat at the U.N. as a sovereign independent...