Word: wife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the year, the President and his wife received gifts worth $100 or more from 68 donors. Included were a crossbow from Admirer Wladyslaw Adamowski of Poland, a handmade Cherokee Indian headdress from Iron Eyes Cody of Los Angeles, a 32-cassette tape recording of the Koran recited by Mahmond El Husary of Cairo's Islamic Academy, and a vermeil chain with 62 gold peanut pendants from Frank Sinatra's daughter Nancy. All of the gifts were turned over to the Government, with five exceptions; a Norman Rockwell book from the Boy Scouts of America, a limited edition...
...Brown knew how to sell chicken, that was for sure. The ex-encyclopedia salesman bought Colonel Sanders' Kentucky Fried operation and parlayed it into an empire that he sold for an estimated $35 million profit. But even with all his money and with the help of his new wife, TV Personality Phyllis George, it was unclear whether he could sell himself as the nominee for Governor to the Bourbons, thoroughbreds and mountain boys of Kentucky...
Brown countered the attacks by escorting his diamond-studded Miss America wife into the hill country and substituting television blitzes and phone banks for local organizations. He spent more than $1 million of his own money on the campaign. Glamour and greenbacks proved a winning combination, giving Brown 29% of the vote; Runner-Up Sloan received 24%. But former Governor Louie Nunn, the Republican nominee, is a street-fighter who will give Brown a tough race. His first salvo was to call his opponent "a snake-oil salesman...
...sultry morning heat, U.S. District Judge John H. Wood Jr., 63, walked out of his San Antonio town house to drive to court. Suddenly a sniper's rifle shot rang out. Struck in the small of the back, he wheeled slowly around and collapsed. His wife Kathryn rushed to his side and found him dying. He was the first federal judge to be murdered since...
...remembers, "I began to think, this is ridiculous. I've got to do something more constructive with my time. So I went over to Radcliffe, and they were not particularly responsive. It was pointed out to me that I had made my choice, that indeed I was a wife and mother." Lyman stood firm, however, and was finally admitted on the basis of her previous admission several years before...