Word: sargent
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...Kennedy's political strategists were torn over the right response. More than one southern Democratic governor had warned them even before the arrest that an endorsement of Dr. King's crusade would cost them the state in the election. But Kennedy's brother in law, Sargent Shriver, got him alone in a room and urged the candidate to just pick up the phone. As the story has been told by historians from Theodore White to Taylor Branch and many in between, Jack Kennedy called Coretta Scott King to tell her of his concern and offer to help...
...governments to use the millennium as an occasion to cancel Third World debt. Bono, who spends most of his nontouring time in Dublin with Hewson and their four children, started flying to Washington for weekends at the World Bank with his friend Bobby Shriver, a son of Eunice and Sargent Shriver. Eventually, Bono's education was taken over by economist Jeffrey Sachs. After Bono's understanding of the issue went from fluency to mastery, he started speaking out, lobbying Bill Clinton's Administration to make debt relief a core aim of U.S. policy toward the developing world. It worked: midway...
ENGAGED. Maria Owings Shriver, 29, Los Angeles-based feature reporter for the CBS Morning News, daughter of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver; and Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38, Austrian-born champion body builder, businessman and movie actor (Conan the Barbarian, The Terminator) and her longtime steady. The wedding, scheduled for next spring, will be the first for both...
...power behind the Kennedy name was never more apparent than in the Cape Cod town of Hyannis last week. CBS Morning News Anchor Maria Shriver, 30, daughter of Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, had made it clear that she wanted her wedding to Austrian-born Actor-Businessman Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38, to be a traditional--and very private--affair. So the Shrivers and Kennedys exerted all their considerable influence to maintain tight security, stymie gossip columnists and keep journalists at a distance. Items...
DIED. HERB SARGENT, 81, six-time Emmy winner who spent more than 20 years writing for Saturday Night Live and helped make the show a hit by shaping such skits as "Weekend Update," a news parody; in New York City. The Tonight Show veteran brought credibility to Lorne Michaels' troupe of upstart comedians, whom Sargent dubbed the Not Ready for Prime Time Players...