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Into the House. Educated in India, Switzerland and England (Oxford), she married a lawyer named Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma). But the marriage soon had to be subordinated to father's needs. By 1946, over her husband's objections, she moved herself and her two small sons into her father's house in New Delhi, began acting as Widower Nehru's hostess and housekeeper. Soon Nehru was taking her with him everywhere-to the U.S., to China, to Russia...
Divorced. By Peter M. Churchill, 46, top British secret agent in occupied France during World War II (no kin to Sir Winston): Odette (full name: Odette Marie Celine Brailly), 43, famed Frenchborn allied spy who was arrested with Churchill by the Gestapo in 1943; after eight years of marriage; in London. Odette saved the life of Churchill (her commanding officer) by convincing the Nazis that he was only her husband who had entered spying at her insistence. She was tortured and imprisoned for two years, escaped to the U.S. lines in 1945, rejoined Churchill London, where she later married...
...Probable next step: tests this winter on 10,000 Army volunteers. However, a vaccine against only one of the 13 known, closely related viruses would have no value for general prescription use, so the researchers have high hopes that they will soon achieve similar success with two of its kin, Types 4 and 7. Then a polyvalent vaccine would be practicable. But PHS researchers sadly admit that there is still nothing in sight of any earthly use to ward off the common cold...
...kin to the late Defense Secretary James Forrestal...
...kin to Britain's Physicist-Traitor Klaus Fuchs...