Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long Thought. Certainly the trimmest ankle of the lot is turned by Bridges' widow, Doloris, 46. She promises that she will carry on her husband's strong conservatism. "This is your money," she tells the ladies at coffees, teas and club dates, as she hits President Kennedy and his foreign policy. "This [U.N. money] is your money, not his private fortune, which is going to Poland, Yugoslavia, and India, which has consistently voted against us, and-hold your breath, girls-to Cuba!" She often invokes Styles's shade. "I thought about this a long time...
...should go to the Senate by inheritance. "I agree that being the wife of a distinguished Senator is glamorous and interesting. But does this itself provide the background of knowledge, experience and training for the U.S. Senate? How many of us, if our doctor died, would go to his widow for treatment...
...Widow's Sob. Not a Cossack but a sugar refinery worker, Roman Popovich, 57, wept with joy outside his home in the Ukraine in front of the photographers who gathered to catch his reaction at the news of his son's landing. In the Chuvash Republic, Anna Nikolayev, 62, a widowed peasant woman, tugged at her handkerchief and sobbed. Newspapers all over the world carried the photos...
...Family? Nehru's own personal favorites in the succession sweepstakes are said to be his daughter, Indira Gandhi, 44, widow of Congress Party Backbencher Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma), and acerbic, West-baiting Defense Minis ter Krishna Menon, 65. Nehru envisions his daughter, who is his closest confidante, as a stopgap Prime Minister who could keep India on an even keel until the Congress Party chose a permanent successor...
...government promptly alerted health officers in southern England to a possible outbreak of the dread disease. Bacon's widow and two daughters, and a dozen friends from the Microbiological Laboratory near Salisbury where he worked, were all under rigid medical surveillance, and all were getting dosed with antibiotics. So were 30 members of the staff at Odstock Hospital, where Bacon died. It was left to a War Office board of inquiry to try to determine just how a man with ten years' laboratory experience had contracted his fatal infection...