Word: sons
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...like a summons home for the 13-year veteran of Time Inc. Son of one of Poland's most distinguished poets, Wierzynski was born in Warsaw only 2½ months before the Germans invaded. Though he left his homeland in 1946 for Switzerland and, seven years later, the United States, he has returned to Poland often, and family members proved to be good sources on this particular story. "Before leaving Washington," recalls Wierzynski, "I debriefed my mother, who had met the then Bishop Wojtyla several times while my parents lived in Rome." Later, in Warsaw, Wierzynski sought...
Even though the election was foreordained and there was no direct popular vote, the new President-elect waged an active ten-month campaign to overcome a serious problem: he was relatively unknown. The son of a general, Figueiredo is a career officer who had been the shadowy director of Brazil's national intelligence service under Geisel. Figueiredo even hired a Sao Paulo advertising agency to improve his image. At their direction, he abandoned his customary tinted glasses for clear lenses, began to kiss babies and beauty queens and even submitted to a kindergarten interview session, during which he told...
...years in a Siberian prison after being convicted of spying for the U.S., and a young Belgian, known only as "Rasputin," whose job was to ward off Zoukhar's "evil eye." A former Soviet grand master who defected to the West two years ago, leaving his wife and son behind, Korchnoi was prepared for all of Moscow's ploys. So unnerving was the prospect of a Korchnoi victory to the Soviet press that it avoided mentioning him by name, referring whenever possible to "that traitor" or "the challenger...
DIED. Willard F. Rockwell, 90, honorary chairman of Rockwell International Corp.; of a stroke; in Pittsburgh. An engineer and inventor, Rockwell strung together a chain of companies, specializing in auto parts, from the 1920s through the 1950s. He gradually turned the business over to his son, who merged Rockwell-Standard with North American Aviation in 1967 and six years later assembled his companies into the current conglomerate...
...last of all, "frank," my son's spelling is atrocious, so please tell him to get on the ball. Our family actually spells it's name "D-O-N-N-O-L-L-Y," not D-O-N-L-E-Y." Sincerely, John...