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...grew up in comfortable circumstances, the eldest of six children, in New Haven, Conn. His lawyer father ceded child-raising duties to Spock's flamboyant, histrionic mother, who smothered her firstborn with love, rules and high expectations. During his first year at nearby Yale, the young man was expected to live at home and return each day for lunch. He eventually wheedled permission to room on campus, where he became, in several respects, a big man. Not only did he shoot up to 6 ft. 4 in., he also rowed on the Yale crew that won a gold medal...
...British throne should pass to the eldest child, regardless of sex -- sweeping aside the millenia-old tradition of primogeniture, in which sons always get first claim on the crown. Princes Charles and William can breath easy, because this makes no change to the line of succession -- they're both firstborn anyway. What this does do, however, is slap a huge royal seal on efforts to modernise the monarchy in the wake of Diana's death...
...Being able to laugh got me through," and she does so far more often in private conversations than her dignified and rather somber public image would suggest. She jokes about her childhood in Lorain, Ohio. "I was the one with the anonymous birth order. There was my older sister, firstborn; me, void; my younger brother, first son; and another son, the family baby. Feeling left out, and trying to attract attention, I became the noisiest of them...
...home on his summer break. His plane's engine had unexpectedly conked out in mid-flight, forcing the instructor to grab the controls and make an emergency landing. "Sometimes it's scary," Pace said over the phone. "When we land, I'm really sweating." Terri recalls listening to her firstborn in her darkened living room and saying, "It sounds like there are a lot of problems, so be really careful. I want you home in one piece." Forty-eight hours later, an Air Force officer knocked at the door of Weber's Miami town house, rousing...
...book so full of grace, the Bible is remarkably tough on sons, especially the firstborn. There is Isaac, son of Abraham and Sarah, who barely escaped becoming the bloody covenant of his father's faith. Esau, who traded away his birthright for a mess of pottage. And the firstborn of the Egyptians, who paid horribly for their country's bondage of the Israelites...