Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jaanimets. who was granted political asylum, could only guess what reprisals might be aimed at his mother, four brothers and sister, who still live in Estonia. But he did not regret his decision. "I am not a man of speeches," he said. "I did it that I should no longer be encaged." At week's end Baltika sailed away, with out Jaanimets and without Khrushchev & Co., who had already gone home by turboprop. Instead, Baltika had a new car go: three cars (Cadillac, Oldsmobile, Comet), TV sets, air conditioners and a seven-ton truckload of capitalist loot for VIPs...
...least of the linguistic assets that Jack Kennedy has going for him is Polish-born Prince Radziwill, husband of Jacqueline Kennedy's chic younger sister Lee, 27. In London last week, multilingual Princess Radziwill was getting set to join the prince in the U.S. and help in the campaign. The prince was already busy stumping in Polish hustings about the U.S. "He enjoys it very much," the princess told British newsmen. "And it is quite all right for him to campaign, although he is a British citizen." She had no comment on a whimsical report that if Brother...
...Sister Eileen (CBS) shows the smooth-tooling lines of a slick TV production, with every joke clicking right into place, but also overestimates the amount of new humor that can be choked from the old contest between a scatterbrained actress and her no-nonsense sister. In last week's episode, Eileen (played by Shirley Bonne) caused Sister Ruth (Elaine Stritch) sleepless nights when she invaded the lair of a panting Broadway producer. One genuinely amusing touch: in a nightmare, Big Sister visualizes the producer's office furnished entirely with couches, and flies to the rescue as Super-Ruth...
...fatuous, wasp stings in much that is vulgar, powder burns on a lot that is neurotic or just human. They go at each other as a way of going at many things else: they are mamma and papa, or mother and son, or lover and mistress, or brother and sister, or monsieur and madame; they coil round each other constantly like flowers, teenagers or snakes...
...name comes from the Bible: "And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, 'Thou art our sister; be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them...