Word: sons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drinks nor smokes and stays in shape by playing tennis regularly. He and Wife Drusilla weekend at the family's 265-acre farm in Callaway County, Mo., 90 miles west of St. Louis, where Webster rides horses and breeds Black Angus cattle. The parents of a college-age son and two daughters, the Websters have few qualms about moving East-even though, as Mrs. Webster says with a laugh, "we'll be one of the few in Washington not from Georgia...
...both to gather in his office. Then he called Rocky and urged him to join them. Kissinger was going to be with the former Vice President, so he was included. Lady Bird Johnson was attending the service, so she too was invited. She asked to bring her daughter and son-in-law, Charles Robb, the new Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. With such an expected assemblage, Baker sent word to the White House that President Carter was welcome. He and Rosalynn accepted...
...son of Wafu (Harmonious Wind), a master ikebanist of the Misho school, young Sofu found himself disenchanted by what he called the "shackles of tradition. You could produce a masterpiece only when you succeeded in emulating 17th century masters in all possible details." At 18 he rebelled and invented an ikebana all his own. When he told his father it represented "an extension of his individualism," Wafu slapped his face. Seven years later the upstart left home to found his own school where his works could reflect his "burning and brimming emotion." Now his son, Hiroshi, 50, a famed film...
Joey Cornblit is a nice Jewish boy from Miami, and his mother has a complaint. Her son the jai-alai player is the hottest betting commodity in town. Not only is he the first American to equal the Basque masters of the sport, he is, at 22, a reigning champion. Since around $350,000 is wagered each performance in the fronton where Joey holds sway, Mrs. Cornblit, a metalworker's wife, has been besieged by telephone calls: "Did Joey eat his breakfast?" "Did he sleep well...
DIED. Alton Carter, 89, President Carter's uncle and the oldest member of the Carter family; of gall bladder disease; in Americus, Ga. The mayor of Plains from 1924 to 1952, "Uncle Buddy" also ran a general store and for the past few years worked in his son's antiques store, where he was a popular raconteur...