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...just love big families," Ethel Kennedy, 38, is fond of saying. That is fortunate. She and Bobby are expecting their tenth child in the spring...
...veritable Noah's Ark to praise Barbra Streisand's performance in Funny Girl: "She's like a grasshopper, a shy one . . . she's an eel on a chair, nibbling at flowers . . . second cousin to an octopus on a chaise longue." And he is overly fond of metaphors of cuisine: "Well-done with French-fried potatoes and salad thrown in on the side" (The Unsinkable Molly Brown); "a disillusioned slice of life with no butter" (A Taste of Honey...
...Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz's son Richard, 27, and Fiancee Margaret Ann Hickman. Before the week was out, Bob Humphrey, a senior at Minnesota's Mankato State College, and Donna, a former Miss Hastings, Minn., proceeded to the next step. Amid pealing bells and the fond smiles of 675 guests, the couple were wed at St. Olaf's Roman Catholic Church in Minneapolis. Neither Uncle L.B.J. nor Auntie L.B.J. could make it, but they sent their best wishes and a nice wedding present...
...statement is true only of classical Chinese, not of the spoken language. The Chinese word for freedom means freedom and nothing else. Its origin is indeed from two characters that by themselves mean "spontaneous" and "uncontrol," but then, my dictionary tells me the word free is from "to be fond of," equally irrelevant. And finally, no one who has read a translation of Cliuang tzii or of the poetry of T'ao Yuan-ming is ignorant of the fact that for nearly 2500 years there has been a strong Chinese ideal of "the integrity of the lone individual against...
...Jones waved from the doorway of the Malawi Airways Viscount. A moment later he disappeared inside, and the plane soared northward toward Britain. All alone in the middle of a red carpet stood Prime Minister H. Kamuzu Banda, waving his fly whisk after the plane. It was a last fond farewell between the two men who had worked together to prepare Malawi for independence in 1964 and for last week's ceremonies, which established Malawi as a republic and Banda as its first President...