Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seriously deranged when he killed himself in April 1932, as was Ernest Hemingway when he blew his brains out with his favorite shotgun. Hemingway's suicide raises the problem of whether the tendency can be inherited (his father shot himself when the author was 29, and his sister died, apparently of an overdose of drugs, last month). Studies of identical twins indicate that there is no genetic factor, but suicide does run in some families-perhaps because of the suggestibility that occasionally produces epidemics of suicide, such as that in 18th century Germany in imitation of Goethe...
...test, Julia's cooking was a bust. As a girl she was a tomboy in a well-to-do Pasadena, Calif., family of six-footers (both her sister and brother, like Julia, top 6 ft., making their mother modest in her boast: "I have produced 18 feet of children"). Julia was content to eat what the family cook served, learned her mothers complete cooking repertory: baking-powder biscuits and Welsh rabbit, and little else. The one time she tried to cook pancakes for breakfast, she recalls, "it took about an hour. It was a real mess...
GEORGY GIRL. In an ordinary British comedy, Lynn Redgrave (daughter of Sir Michael, sister of Vanessa) displays extraordinary zest as an overweight, underloved girl who dreams only of romance and motherhood. Instead, she finds the path to matrimony an obstacle course of tragicomic misadventures, middle-aged satyrs, and a modish menage a trois...
...once said, "something blows up." An exaggeration perhaps, but typical and probably pardonable. There have been precious few major explosions in the world during the last 30 years at which earnest, hardworking Dave Duncan has not been present. Hung up on photography ever since he was 18, when his sister gave him a 39? camera, Kansas City-born Duncan came along just in time to help create a new professional caste; the photojournalist. As a correspondent for the National Geographic, LIFE and, in recent years, as one of the highest paid freelancers in the business, Duncan has roamed the world...
...ships and orders others from competing yards, specializing in the immensely economical leviathans that are three times as capacious as mere supertankers. Last month his 149,000-ton Bergehaven unloaded 1,000,000 bbl of oil at Milford Haven, England- the biggest single delivery ever made in Europe. A sister ship will be finished in Japan this week, bringing his fleet to 1 ships totaling 1,300,000 tons. By mid-1968, when nine other ships will have been launched, Bergesen's fleet will have doubled in size, surpassing in tonnage the entire 1 13-tanker fleet...