Word: clans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tandem can trace their names back to the ancient lineage of the MacLeod clan. For centuries the MacLeods have resided on the Isle of Skye, one of those primeval volcanic islands that make up in the Inner Hebrides chain off the northern coast of Scotland. "A MacLeod is always welcome there," says John, whose sister actually visited the Isle of Skye last spring and was cordially welcomed by the dour Highlanders...
...family seat of the MacLeods is Dunvagun Castle, where the clan is presided over by none other than John MacLeod ever since Dame Flora MacLeod died last year. "Every now and then I'll wear a family plaid," says Harvard's member of the clan...
...this point Scott interjects and says, "Well if we lose to Yale you'll have to keep on playing and turn pro." And if one MacLeod should ever turn pro, you can be sure the other one would follow. The MacLeods, after all, are a clan...
When Galante got that fearful word, he was in the Metropolitan Correction Center. He soon learned that killers from two families were trying to get him: triggermen who worked for Dellacroce and others who belonged to the Colombo family, a clan that after a decade of internal struggle is trying to regain other mobsters' regard-and Dellacroce's thanks-by eliminating his rival. Knowing how easily he could be assassinated in prison, Galante arranged to have his bodyguards take up their nighttime baby-sitting beside his cell...
...historian of Camelot," and his remembers of RFK are called a view through the "rheumy eyes of an old Cold War liberal." It is a shame, many write, that such a wealth of information about Kennedy had to come from the typewriter of such a loyal adherent of the clan. That Kennedy was an idealist, they don't dispute. But they resent Schlesinger's portrait of Kennedy as an ideal idealist--an untainted saint. Sure, Schlesinger received a Pulitzer Prize for history (1945) and one for biography (1965), but he also served on the campaign staff of Adlai Stevenson...