Word: son-in-law
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...wall. In the White House, President John F. Kennedy muses, "It took me two years before I figured out that Harry Truman was Harry Truman's real name. I thought he was being informal and was really Harold Truman." At the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev admonishes his journalist son-in-law, "Does Izvestiya have to be boring? I suppose so, otherwise I would send you to Gulag." But Buckley's most cutting remarks come from newspapers of the day: Columnist Walter Lippmann assures his readers, " 'The present Cuban military buildup is not capable of offensive action.' " The New York Times reports...
...become the youngest partner in the firm's history. The fact that Regan's uncle by marriage happened to be a senior partner was hardly a hindrance, but not even his detractors claim that his rise was based on nepotism. An important mentor was Robert Magowan, son-in-law of Co-Founder Charles Merrill, who described Regan as "the brashest little bastard I've ever seen." When that billing got back to Regan, the 6-ft. ex-Leatherneck protested, "I'm not little...
...Street Journal. In a story about the oil business last month, the paper gave short shrift to a piece of news that the company thought was important-the closing of a Mobil refinery in West Germany-and devoted a separate story to a report that Percy Pyne, the son-in-law of Mobil Chairman Rawleigh Warner Jr., would benefit financially from the company's construction of a $300 million office tower in Chicago. As a result, Mobil announced last week that it will no longer have "anything to do with the Wall Street Journal." Said John Flint, a Mobil...
...murdered. "My three sons were burned alive," quietly began Amrik Singh, a sad-eyed man whose gray beard had been forcibly shaved to a silver stubble by a mob wielding knives. "They came to my house. They dragged my sons out. They put petrol on them and set them on fire." Near by, Purani Kaur, 60, leaned against a wall in the dusty school courtyard, her eyelids almost swollen shut. "They came to my house with swords and bricks," she said as friends reached out to steady her. "All my five sons and my son-in-law were killed...
...committed the carnage. But Army investigators found holes in his story and soon began to suspect MacDonald. When charges against MacDonald were dropped because of insufficient evidence, his father-in-law led a crusade to find the murderers. After examining the evidence, he, too, became convinced that his son-in-law had committed the crime. Years later, when MacDonald was finally brought to trial, Author Joe McGinniss began chronicling the story, and also concluded that MacDonald was guilty, in his 1983 bestseller Fatal Vision...