Word: son-in-law
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...political India has been agog over a scandal centering around one of Prime Minister Nehru's principal aides, Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari, and one of Nehru's pet Socialist projects, the newly nationalized Life Insurance Corp. The scandal broke last November when Nehru's son-in-law, Feroze Gandhi,* rose in Parliament and asked the minister a pointed question: Had the new corporation used the premium payments of India's 5,500,000 life-insurance policyholders to buy up shares at above-market prices in companies controlled by a notorious stock speculator named Haridas Mundhra...
...sales while it licensed prostitutes. He seized avidly on the scandal of a 14-year-old Brazilian girl who, studying at Baylor and living in the home of its president, became pregnant and charged that she was raped by the brother of the president's Baptist minister son-in-law...
...bequest. L. B.'s stated reason for this was tart enough: "During my lifetime, I have given them extremely substantial assistance through gifts and financial assistance to my daughter's husband and through the advancement of his career (as distinguished from that of my former son-in-law [Producer] David O. Selznick, who never requested assistance from me) in the motion picture industry." Some Hollywood historians surmised last week that there was another motive. Back in 1952, Ikeman Mayer had a bitter quarrel with Edith and Bill Goetz, both Stevenson supporters. He preserved his wrath, never forgave...
...Wyeth's own life was both swift and deep. Dead at 62, he left behind him a widened world of imagination and a family dedicated to the arts (besides Andrew, Wyeth's daughter Henriette and son-in-law Peter Kurd are distinguished painters). Soon after N. C.'s death, his son Andrew painted a picture of a boy running downhill. "For me," Andy says, "the bulges of that hill seem to be breathing-rising and falling-almost as if my father were underneath them...
...paper holders into which he jams his long Sumatra or Brazil cigar, Ludwig Erhard has remained true to his staid Franconian upbringing. Though he now wears glossily tailored blue suits, their lapels are usually sprinkled with ashes. His youngest daughter is married to a Daimler-Benz executive. The son-in-law used to work for the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community in Luxembourg, but Erhard nagged .so persistently that a young man belonged not in a deadening bureaucracy but in "competitive private enterprise" that he finally changed jobs. "Germany has substituted the commercial...