Word: sons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Johnny" or "Johnny Boy" and accuses Dalton's camp of "Nazi-like" tactics. Howell has tried to temper his maverick image by invoking his closeness to Jimmy Carter, who joined him on the campaign trail last September. Moreover, Howell is running on the same ticket with Lyndon Johnson's son-in-law Chuck Robb, a reassuringly moderate candidate for Lieutenant Governor...
...passed down through the generations in neatly tied packets-wrinkled currency stiff with age, smelling faintly of the lemon verbena that scented great-grandmother's chiffonier. "Save your Confederate money, son," the vainglorious slogan insisted. "The South will rise again." It took a century and a Southerner in the White House, but the time has come. With chitlin chic upon us, once worthless Confederate bills have become a gold mine for Rebel diehards...
...even, as things turned out, an affable Dutchman who had nothing to do with the high drama of the week before. The son of an Amsterdam oil and coal dealer, Caransa made his fortune by trading military surplus goods after World War II. Later he switched to real estate, and in time came to own several of the city's finest hotels. To his friends the warmhearted Caransa is known as a bridge enthusiast, a physical fitness addict, and a racing fan. To his kidnapers he may have seemed a suitable target because 1) he is one of Holland...
...ritual seldom varies. On Sunday mornings in Rome's Cassia district, a slender middle-aged man accompanies his wife and son as far as the steps of the modern stone-and-glass Santa Chiara Church. He watches them enter and returns when Mass is over to accompany them home. In a country where husbands often leave churchgoing to their women, the scene is not unusual-except for one thing. The man is Enrico Berlinguer, secretary-general of Italy's Communist Party and an atheist who nonetheless is willing to accommodate the steadfast faith of his wife Letizia...
Turner frets that needless fast chases will continue until police attitudes are changed. "There's an ego problem," he explains. "Rookies, especially, tell themselves, 'No son of a bitch is going to beat me.' That type is dangerous?to himself and everyone else...