Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holiday wreath was on the front door of the Gettysburg farmhouse, the tree was trimmed, and Dwight Eisenhower, 75, just a week out of Washington's Walter Reed Hospital after recovery from his November heart attack in Augusta, Ga., settled down with Mamie, his son John and four grandchildren for a private and grateful Christmas. His doctors' greetings: he can take short strolls and climb stairs now. Said Ike with a grin: "I expect I'll be playing golf again within a month-but slowly...
Author Blankfort, who has a daughter and three grandchildren now living in Israel, has poured his heart into Behold the Fire, his eighth novel. His prose at times is hauntingly Biblical. His description of Jewish farmers battling a locust swarm is so vividly and sparely done that the reader can all but feel the crunch of the crawling vermin underfoot. And his protagonists, growing almost against their will to withstand stresses they never imagined, will not be easy to forget...
...Grandchildren. During his eleven-year reign, Ho has generated a remarkable image among his 18 million subjects. "He is everywhere," rhapsodize his court poets. "He is at once our father, uncle and older brother. He is the heart that feeds a hundred arteries." He is also the man whose three-year land-reform program (1954-56) ruthlessly eradicated perhaps as many as 100,000 peasants. Still the survivors love him. More than 400,000 Vietnamese children bear the title "Uncle Ho's Grandchildren," a reward proffered only to the best students of Vietnamese Communism...
...Federal Government debt has gone up only 15%. And because the federal debt is rising much more slowly than the U.S. population, the per capita federal debt has declined in the past 20 years from $1,900 to $1,600-meaning that Americans are by no means saddling their grandchildren with an unbearable load...
...Simons go out rarely, usually avoid the cocktail-party circuit. They enjoy visits from their two sons, Donald, 28, a University of Southern California graduate student, and Robert, 26, head of Hunt's vegetable procurement division, and their three grandchildren. They travel frequently, last week returned from a ten-day trip to Florence and Rome, where they soaked up art and opera and ate canelloni and Florentine steaks. At home, they prefer to entertain in small groups, mostly drawn from art and education circles, that make for lively conversation. Jean Fowles and her husband Edward at tended one meal...