Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...displayed a special fondness for children (she and Teng have two grandchildren), particularly Amy Carter. She held hands with Amy during the entire gala performance at the Kennedy Center, visited the Chinese pandas at the National Zoo with her, and dropped in at her sixth-grade math class. She asked that her schedule be changed so that she would have twice as much time at a children's hospital...
...were not allowed to land in Tehran, there would still be enough fuel aboard for a return flight to Paris. Because of fears of sabotage, no Iranian women or children were allowed on the flight (though several female journalists were along); Khomeini's wife, daughter, daughter-in-law and grandchildren would fly to Iran later by commercial airliner...
Surrounded by her sons and daughters, in-laws and grandchildren, the handsome 56-year-old matriarch, Marhemat Mokhtari, talks animatedly about the old feudal life in one of Iran's poorest areas. Fifty years ago, Khomein was controlled by landlords. A peasant who herded sheep was paid 30 rials, the equivalent of half a dollar, for a year's work. Tenant farmers who came to the area were given quotas to meet: often their entire crop of wheat was for the landlord, with nothing left over to make bread of their own. Mrs. Mokhtari remembers that the Ayatullah...
...Though Hilton's son Barren, 51, took over as chief executive more than a decade ago, Papa kept the title of chairman and continued to turn up daily at his Beverly Hills office to answer fan mail and assist charities. Besides Barron, another son, Eric, and 14 grandchildren, Hilton is survived by his third wife, Mary Frances, 63, a former United Airlines saleswoman he married two years...
...heart attack in 1969, the Labor Party asked her to succeed him, not only out of love but to avoid a split between factions loyal to the flamboyant Moshe Dayan and his archrival Yigal Allon. She duly burst into tears, expounded her devotion to her children and grandchildren, professed inadequacy-and accepted...