Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grown cab, and Helen Hayes, looking like a magnificent ninety-year-old Mad- woman of Chaillot, sweeps in and out of the reception room, ecstatically explaining nothing. It shortly becomes clear that the Duchess (Helen Hayes) has in various ways frozen time, for the sake of her melancholy nephew the prince (Richard Burton), by recreating the surroundings of his one brief love affair...
Ivory Coast. Today Mike Benedum is no longer the continent-hopping wildcatter of the past. Partner Trees died in 1943; his nephew Paul Benedum and half a dozen lieutenants run the empire he built. But from Miami Beach's Roney Plaza Hotel, where he spends each winter, and Pittsburgh's exclusive Duquesne Club, where he recently rebuilt an elevator to take him directly to his fifth-floor suite, he keeps tab on every well. Besides Ohio, Wyoming and Texas, Benedum's wildcatters are exploring 750,000 acres in Colombia, also have 450,000 acres in Guatemala...
...businessmen flock to Paris, and a sizable minority of them find their way to the American Church. Their needs are often unusual: a tired, broke G.I. awakens Pastor Williams at 3 a.m., asks for and gets a bunk for the night; an Air Force captain learns that his nephew has been killed in a street accident, and Dr. Williams opens the church at midnight to pray with him; a desolate young man phones for help from a Montmartre bar. and the pastor sends Alcoholics Anonymous...
...public-works project. Witnesses testified that two top members of the Republican-run Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission had teamed up with Manu-Mine Research & Development Co. (initial capitalization: $4,300) in a plan to defraud the commission of turnpike construction funds. With then-Turnpike Commission Chairman Thomas J. Evans' nephew, Charles Stickler, as president, Manu-Mine had cozily acted as the commission's consultant, contractor (without competitive bidding) and official inspector of its own work, received an "exorbitant" $7,000,000 (of the total $19.5 million in contracts) for drilling useless holes to fill abandoned coal mines with sand...
...mind. The winding Los Angeles River, which flowed through the area, carried most of its water underground; a growing city would need more water. Rounding up powerful business friends-Union Pacific Railroad's E. H. Harriman, Promoter Moses Sherman, Banker Joseph Sartori and Collis Huntington's nephew Henry-Chandler set out to locate a new source. He found it: 240 miles to the northeast lay a lush valley of orchards and farms fed by the Owens River. Chandler and his friends quietly bought up the water and land rights from the prosperous, unsuspecting Owens farmers. In Washington...