Word: son-in-law
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...hardware dealer from downstate Wallace country who serves as legislative leader, Tribbitt wisely responded to his opportunity by saying very little. The fact that Delaware has no commercial TV stations of its own was no handicap for the old-line Democrat. He is, as his son-in-law and campaign manager Skip Webb conceded to reporters, "not too articulate." Tribbitt simply waited patiently for his majority to pile...
...could eventually take over the government: Yao Wenyuan of Shanghai, one of the three Politburo members who head the Communist Party's radical wing. Yao, fortyish, who is officially listed as No. 6 in the party hierarchy, is also rumored to be Mao's son-in-law. According to the story put about by the Soviets and Nationalist Chinese and never denied in Peking, Yao is married to Hsiao Li, Mao's daughter by his third wife Chiang Ching. The far-left Chiang Ching happens to be a close political ally of Yao's. There have...
Good Grace. The real eye opener, however, was the selection of Daniel, the suave, courtly son-in-law of Harry Truman. Daniel turned 60 last week; the newspaper of record omitted his age both in its press release and its published story. Toward the end of his five-year tenure as managing editor, in 1968-69, Daniel chafed at having to operate in close proximity to James Reston, the Times superstar who outranked him at the time as executive editor. Sidetracked to speechmaking and a variety of special projects, Daniel took his transfer with typical good grace and has lately...
...writer's fancy than fact, the censorship troubles of Yorkin and Lear are all too real. Family, particularly, has at least one big crisis a season. Two winters ago, it was over the episode about homosexuality that President Nixon so disliked; last winter, a show on which Son-in-Law Mike's exam jitters made him sexually impotent. Smaller crises abound, as when CBS succeeded in knocking out the word "Mafia" from one script, the term "smartass" from another...
With help from another eminent baseball authority, Son-in-Law David Eisenhower, who compiled player statistics in 1970 for the then Washington Senators, the President picked two separate teams, pre-and post-World War II, for each league. He explained his choices in some 2,800 words that re flected both a sure grasp of sport cliches and his own brand of rhetoric. He repeatedly used the term "get the nod" and said of a choice: "I have always had enormous respect for him, not only as a fine player but as a leader...