Word: widowers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sale at 17? a copy the authorities evidently felt that they could not risk having it circulate throughout China. Wei, who had conducted his own defense at his trial, charged that China had scarcely changed since the ouster of the Gang of Four, led by Mao's widow Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch'ing). A former Red Guard who has become an impassioned proponent of democracy, Wei ridiculed the accusation of counterrevolutionary activity leveled against him and other dissidents: "It is revolutionary to act in accordance with the will of the people in power and counterrevolutionary to oppose...
DIED. Yvonne de Gaulle, 79, widow of French President Charles de Gaulle and known throughout France as "Aunt Yvonne"; in Paris. The daughter of a wealthy Calais biscuit manufacturer, she was a loyal and uncomplaining supporter of her husband's tumultuous military and political career. She joined him in exile in Britain during World War II and in 1943 courageously accompanied him to Algiers. Preferring to live in the shadow of her husband, she avoided publicity and spent much of the past decade gardening and doing charitable work in the quiet seclusion of La Boisserie, the family...
...Pritchett's characters are articulate about their- predicaments. Zuilmah Bittell in Tea with Mrs. Bittell is an affluent widow whose wits have been slowed by gentility. With a head "clouded by kindness and manners and a pride in her relics," she befriends a shop clerk whose companion attempts to plunder her expensive furnishings. That the pair are probably homosexuals escapes Mrs. Bittell; that embarrassment moves her to brave action provides the reader with an unexpected insight into motivation: "She had often, in her quiet way, thought of what she would do if someone attacked her. She had always planned...
DIED. Mamie Doud Eisenhower, 82, widow of President Dwight D. Eisenhower; following a stroke; in Washington, D.C. (see NATION...
DIED. Rachele Mussolini, 89, shy, fiercely loyal widow of Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini; of a heart attack; in Carpena di Forli, Italy. Rachele Guidi met Mussolini in 1906 while working in the kitchen at his father's inn. He threatened to commit suicide if she would not marry him, but they lived together five years before the union was made legal in 1915. During Il Duce's rise and reign from 1922 to 1943, Donna Rachele remained at home, keeping house and rearing their five children. After the dictator was shot by partisans and hanged by the heels...