Word: son-in-law
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...aides and the White House that he did not want any official statements-or unofficial ones for that matter-to be put out about the wedding. Next day he was meeting with visiting Latin American foreign ministers, imperturbably puffing his usual Lark. His daughter and new son-in-law were off on a long-weekend honeymoon in Southern California. Peggy was due back at Stanford and Guy at his job this week, both with a little history-making behind them...
There was little chance that the item would have made the Moscow papers four years ago, when Nikita Khrushchev was in power and Son-in-Law Alelcsei Adzhubei was editor of Izvestia. But now Adzhubei, 43, is just a features editor on the magazine Soviet Union, and the Russian press was only too willing to note that he had been charged with reckless driving for running down a woman as she pushed her baby carriage across the street. Adzhubei could have been jailed for ten years if mother or child had been seriously injured. The woman did suffer a concussion...
...every day that a father can shed a political liability and gain a son-in-law. If he had been programmed on a Pentagon computer, Marine Captain Charles S. Robb, the 28-year-old White House social aide who sought and won Lynda Bird Johnson's hand, could not have turned out better for the President, who had made no secret of his displeasure over Lynda's long ro mance with draft-deferred Actor George Hamilton. Robb is tall (6 ft. 1½), dark, handsome, athletic, affable, intelligent, earnest, circumspect-and can hardly wait for his assignment...
...Broadway production of Arthur Miller's View from the Bridge was done after Shahn had seen the play at rehearsal. He found it "very powerful, very moving." Shahn's watercolor, Branches of Water or Desire, reflects his admiration for the poetry of his son-in-law, Alan Dugan, who won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1962 with his first volume. The picture illustrates one of the poems, which begins...
...taxied down the strip, Duvalier's private Gestapo or Tonton Macoutes (Creole for bogeymen), jumped Dominique's two bodyguards and chauffeur, then hustled the three men off to jail. Last month Duvalier dismissed Dominique from the army "for the good of the service," and ordered his son-in-law to return to Haiti to stand trial for "desertion, mutiny and treason." Dominique is not likely to obey, for his father-in-law is convinced that he was the man behind the April bombings and the ringleader of a planned insurrection...