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...heirs forever" and, in fact, remained in the family for some time. Apparently the last of the Mavericks to hold the land was the original Samuel's great-grandson, who was killed in the Boston Massacre. The Mavericks then moved gradually southward, eventually to found the famed Maverick clan of Texas...
...lifting the campaign "above the level of a local clan battle" and "redirecting it toward debate on the life-and-death issues of the nuclear age," Hughes wrote, he had shown that the question of human survival "was worth an extraordinary commitment of time and energy...
...French are a family people, and the Alps in Savoy were beginning to look like the gathering of the clan. At Meribel-les-Allues was Brigitte Bardot, just divorced again, and her ever-steady Sami Frey. Just a yodel away at Megève was her ex-husband. Director Roger (And God Created Woman) Vadim, 35, with his constant protegee and fiancée of 18 months, pert Cinemactress Catherine Deneuve, 19, who blissfully posed for photographers and even offered the reporter from Paris-Presse her secret clue to success. "To keep the love of a man," said...
...political pals with lucrative state jobs, said matter-of-factly: "The money is there to hand out, and I'm sure not going to give it to my enemies." He became a favorite of Bobby Kennedy's, traveled several times to Washington to visit with the clan; at one party, he was even dunked in the famed swimming pool along with his dance partner, Mrs. Pierre Salinger...
Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O'Neill, seems, after 38 years, as familiar as inherited folklore. It is the mid-19th century New England saga of the flinty, greedy. God-bedeviled, lust-maddened Cabot clan and its internecine struggle over the family farm. To possess it. the sons wish their father dead, brother plots against brother, a young woman marries a fanatical old man, seduces his son to obtain an heir, and murders the infant to repossess the son's love. George C. Scott plays the fire-breathing old father Ephraim with monomaniacal force. As the woman...