Word: son-in-law
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...Guru, Too. Performing with Menuhin and rehearsing at his $150,000 chalet at Gstaad were the family's four concert pianists: Sisters Hephzibah and Yaltah, Brother-in-Law Joel Rycé" (Yal-tah's husband) and Son-in-Law Fou Ts'ong, 24, who defected from Red China in 1959 and married Yehudi's daughter Zamira two years later. Also present at the get-together: Menuhin's favorite guru, B.S.K. lyengar, from Bombay...
...same time, Nikita was taking a cautious step toward improved relations with his old enemies, the West Germans. To that end, he sent his son-in-law, Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhu-bei, swinging through West Germany on an ostensibly "private" journalistic tour. But when Adzhubei got to Bonn, it became clear that he was traveling on something more than an ordinary press pass. In a private talk with Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, the Russian guest revealed his real mission: to arrange a visit to West Germany for Father-in-Law Nikita...
...belated attempt to create a history has "traced" the beginning of the order to A.D. 644, when the Prophet Mohammed's son-in-law, Kalif Alee (whose name be praised!), founded a "vigilance committee" to dole out punishment for crimes not already covered by existing laws. The committee became a select group of noblemen, presumably above reproach and therefore demonstrably better than other men. They evolved elaborate rituals and ceremonies. As luck would have it, a copy of the ritual (in translation) wandered slowly across the vast Near Eastern deserts to America, where it fell, like manna from heaven...
...department stores, fought alone to rally stockholders against a merger with Federated Department Stores, the nation's biggest chain. Appealing to local pride, he warned that the "Eastern octopus" would crush Bullock's individuality. Bullock's other directors, led by Winnett's son-in-law, President Walter W. Candy Jr., 58, argued that a merger with Federated (60 stores, including Manhattan's Bloomingdale's, Miami's Burdine's and Boston's Filene's) would enable stockholders to share in its more rapid growth, chided Winnett for not adopting more advanced...
Petition candidates rarely have much of a chance, but there was a special flurry in the case of Horowitz, whose son and son-in-law were also Yale men. Five hundred alumni, including Democratic Senator Thomas G. Dodd and leading Republican John Alsop, signed the nominating petition to get him on the ballot on the general theory that "it would be a good sign" to have a Jew on the board for the first time in the corporation's history. However, in the balloting, the alumni's choice was New York Congressman Lindsay...