Word: wife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stubbornly independent, Randolph was not swept up in the ideological currents of his time, resisting both Communism and the black nationalism of Jamaican Organizer Marcus Garvey. He kept his own counsel, shunning Harlem's high society and enjoying the company of his wife Lucille, a former beauty parlor operator whose sprightliness contrasted with his own solemnity...
...violent reaction from Peking that would almost certainly follow such a move. The second would be a threat by Taipei to play its so-called Russian Card, seeking Soviet aid to balance the threat from China. President Chiang spent more than a decade in the Soviet Union and his wife Faina is Russian, but his animosity to Communism in any form makes this course seem unlikely. The third factor is Taiwan's continued refusal to negotiate better relations with the mainland. China's Vice Premier, Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p'ing), has cited this hostile attitude...
...empty jar that had once held kimchi (the potent, spicy relish made from fermented cabbage), which he once "looked into" while visiting a peasant family. Surprisingly, North Koreans know little about the private life of their great father-teacher. Most people do not know the name of his wife (Kim Sung Ae) or how many children he has (at least two). They are, however, aware of his eldest son, Kim Jong II, 36, a party functionary. The official publicity campaign on his behalf suggests that Kim the younger is being groomed to succeed his father...
...policeman and fireman shocked San Franciscans. "If White had been a breakfast cereal," said one acquaintance, "he would have to have been Wheaties." But Defense Counsel Douglas Schmidt described White as a manic-depressive with intolerable pressures because of his heavily mortgaged house and his efforts to support a wife and baby from a fast-food stand. The defense made much of White's penchant for wolfing down junk food-Twinkies, Cokes, doughnuts, candy bars-a habit that, the defense claimed, exacerbated his depression and indicated a chemical imbalance in his brain...
BORN. To Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf, 33, and his German-born wife Queen Silvia, 35; their first son, second child; in Stockholm. Name: Carl Philip Edmund Bertil, Duke of Värmland...