Word: webs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picked Sihanouk over his seemingly tougher uncles, who were actually in line for the succession, because they thought that the boy would be more pliable. For the first few years, it looked as though they had been right. Sihanouk became an inveterate sampot-chaser, thereby entangling himself in a web of domestic complexities. Royal records are kept secret, but he has apparently been married six times, sired 14 children. His current favorite and constant companion: Monique, the lovely half-Italian, half-Cambodian beauty-contest winner whom Sihanouk met when he awarded her a pageant prize in 1951.* Five...
...Family. His true theme is the family and the intricate web of emotional and moral tensions which compose it, and he could not thus become a writer until he had himself become involved in the complex spiritual pieties of a family...
Baker's Web...
...would appear as though that tangled web has ensnared everything from moonlighting, mistresses and mooching to President Johnson's acute (and heretofore undiagnosed) case of myopia...
...from Closed. There is no doubt that, through the tangled web of his far-reaching financial dealings, Baker used his Senate post to feather his own and his friends' nests. But whether an influence-peddling case can be made against him remains to be seen. While Pennsylvania Republican Hugh Scott, a member of the committee investigating Bobby, wants 40 more witnesses called, Counsel McLendon talks privately about summoning only half a dozen or so more, then closing down. Chairman Jordan seems disposed to go along with McLendon. Naturally enough, the Republican minority would like to turn the Baker affair...