Word: son-in-law
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...presidential car sped along the road from Paris to Villacoublay Airport. Hurrying to catch the plane home to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises were President Charles de Gaulle and his wife Yvonne; up front with the chauffeur was the De Gaulles' son-in-law, Alain de Boissieu. Close behind followed a security car and two motorcycle policemen. As the small motorcade slowed down for a traffic circle in suburban Clamart, Old Soldier de Gaulle once again faced the guns of an enemy...
...jumped from the rear of a Renault panel truck and opened fire with a submachine gun. From a Citroen parked on the other side of the road 50 yds. ahead, two other gunmen sprayed the presidential convoy with bullets. As glass splintered and lead thudded into the chassis, Son-in-law de Boissieu shouted to the driver, "Above all, don't stop!" Then De Boissieu reached back and pulled De Gaulle and his wife to the floor. The driver stepped on the gas and narrowly averted a smashup when another burst of gunfire blew out two of the special...
...chief executive, Copeland succeeds Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, 60, the son-in-law of onetime President Irénéé du Pont; Greenewalt moves up to chairman of the board after 14 years as president. While Greenewalt will "guide policy decisions," Du Font's operations will be run by Copeland, who joined the family firm shortly after graduating from Harvard (B.S. in engineering, '28) and, save for a four-month layoff during the Depression, has been with it ever since. The change, Du Pont executives say, was long scheduled, but hinged on the retirement of Walter S. Carpenter...
...that the book is merely a prelude to a series of autobiographical novels. But Tucci takes far too long to make his biographical points. Again and again he shows the same characters playing the same emotional parts: the domineering old woman, the haplessly childish daughter, the faintly struggling son-in-law. Each family anecdote would make a good (if somewhat bloated) New Yorker sketch. But, because only members of a family have limitless interest in family idiosyncrasies, the sum of Before My Time is interminably less than its parts. With skill at re-creating the rich past, Tucci has hand...
...leading powers and to arrange a swap of television appearances between his boss and the boss of all the Russians, Nikita Khrushchev. Alas for unlucky Pierre-he never had a chance. From the moment he was met by Aleksei Adzhubei, editor of Izvestia and Khrushchev's son-in-law, the swart, short, 36-year-old ex-reporter from San Francisco found himself up to his cigar butt in fast moving, stomach-stuffing Soviet hospitality...