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Long Tradition. Bowman Gray is the product of a long and inbred family tradition at Reynolds?though his family is no direct relation to the Reynolds clan...
Kennedy's saturation campaign was a political wonder. Few towns with a population of more than 300 went unvisited by at least one member of Clan Kennedy, and most of them had three or four return visits. Wherever Jack went, the crowds followed him in Pied Piper numbers-and many of the faces were new. A lively turnout of 4,000 flowed into Milwaukee's Schroeder Hotel one afternoon to look the shockheaded Easterner over and to shake his hand. Said an awed politician: "I didn't recognize a fraction of them, and I know most...
Around Chestnut Ridge in southwestern Pennsylvania, mountain folk were wary of the mean-tempered, sharpshooting Raymond clan. In 1922 Albert Raymond had fussed with his wife, ended by shooting her and killing himself. Grandson Gerald Raymond had been led to jail recently for threatening to kill a man. Only a month ago, the family's hot blood ran true-and freely-when Patriarch Norval Raymond, 69, blasted a son-in-law in the face with a shotgun. Yet one Raymond seemed free of the curse of violence: short (5 ft. 5 in.), wiry Dan, 43, an avid hunter...
...follow Khrushchev's example and announce a cut in their armed forces. And from Peking came words from a speech delivered at the Moscow meeting by Chinese Observer Kang Sheng that was not mentioned at all, let alone published in Russia. At an earlier gathering of the clan in May 1958 it was announced that the sessions "in which an observer from the Chinese People's Republic also took part confirmed the unanimity of the governments represented." With good reason, no such claim was made this time. For Kang Sheng condemned Premier Khrushchev's coexistence policy...
Nobusuke was born in Yamaguchi, a pleasant city above the Inland Sea, on Nov. 23, 1896. From childhood he had drummed into him the glories of the Sato family, the Choshu clan and the warrior class. Aristocratic Moyo Sato constantly reminded her son that their ancestors had been charged by the Emperor with guarding Shimonoseki Strait, the gateway to the Inland Sea. Her uncle was a major general who founded the Japanese cavalry; her brothers and sisters married into top families, including the Matsuokas and Yo-shidas. "Never forget you are a samurai," she said. "Never take second place...