Word: scion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major test comes this week, when Lebanon's multiple factions are due to begin their long-awaited national reconciliation talks in Geneva. President Gemayel, a scion of the Christian Phalange, has repeatedly pledged to give more power to the Muslim majority, but he remains dangerously squeezed between Muslim expectations and the reluctance of his own supporters to accept a smaller slice of national authority. Syria, as ever, remains the spoiler, poised to wreck any agreement that is not to its liking...
...Nancy Kassebaum, 51. She is one of the Senate's two women (the other: Republican Paula Hawkins) and scion of Alf Landon, the 1936 G.O.P. presidential nominee. A moderate on economic and social issues, Kassebaum has supported the ERA and legalized abortion...
MARRIED. Irene Marcos, 22, younger daughter of Philippine President Ferdinand and First Lady Imelda Marcos; and Gregorio Araneta III, 35, land developer and scion of one of the country's most prominent families; both for the first time; in Sarrat, the Philippines. Bitterly disappointed by the 1981 U.S. marriage of their daughter Imee, 27, to a divorced man, the Marcoses compensated this time by laying on the pomp and splendor. Under Imelda's flamboyant direction, an estimated $1.3 million, some of it government funds, was spent on items such as speeding historic restoration work on the northern Luzon...
...think we are paying him what he is worth," says Corporation member Hugh Calkins '45. "But people don't take the presidency of Harvard University with the goal of getting a large salary.' Bok, in fact, has a certain amount of independent wealth, as the scion of an affluent Philadelphia family...
Apparently, organizers from the two groups up with the seperately and failed to get together, Scion surface the spirit to the ideological bonnet of students behind the "Opponents" group--most of whom ac allied with the campus branch of the Spartans Youth League. The clubs even filed for recognition using the same name, but one secured rights to the "Business" label because they filed first, according to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps...