Word: sons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, practices the art of deflation for a living, and he repeatedly reminds us that Lucy Elizabeth must share the credit and the blame. "I was happy to get your letter, especially the news that someone else has noted your writing ability," she remarks after learning of her son's job opportunity at the Times. No matter that his abilities had already earned him big-league distinction in Europe; Mother Baker thought the offer was just the break he needed...
...convulsed Glen Ridge, a well-off community of 7,700 that likes to think of itself as a large family. The girl has known at least two of the youths since grammar school; she and the accused are white. The alleged assailants are among the town's favored sons: Kyle and Kevin Scherzer, 18- year-old twins, and Peter Quigley, also 18, are stars of the football team. The two other youths who were arrested were under 18 at the time of the attack, and their identities have not been released. Among the eight onlookers: the 18-year-old son...
...nepotism starts with Deng Xiaoping, whose eldest son, Deng Pufang, 44, heads the giant China Welfare Fund for the Handicapped. Government investigators say Pufang, who was crippled when Red Guards threw him from a window during the Cultural Revolution, allegedly helped a Chinese conglomerate gain tax-exempt status and reap vast profits for fraudulent work. Pufang denies the charges. The names of other relatives of leaders read like entries in a Chinese Who's Who. Among them: Chi Haotian, 59, Chief of Staff of the People's Liberation Army and son-in-law of President Yang Shangkun; Li Tieying...
Though Premier Li Peng appeared to have triumphed over General Secretary Zhao Ziyang last week, both men are accused of string pulling. One source of resentment against Li, the adopted son of former Premier Zhou Enlai, is that his connections enabled him to study in Moscow and rise rapidly through the ranks. Zhao's son is chairman of the Hainan Huahai Co., a trading and investment company. Moreover, Yang, Zhao and Deng are all believed to have sons-in-law who work for army-run companies that export Chinese arms...
...rookie attorney just out of the University of Washington law school, Foley seemed likely to emulate the career of his father, a highly regarded state judge who exerted a powerful influence over his son until his death four years ago at 84. But in 1961 Washington's Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson hired Foley as a counsel to the Senate Interior Committee. In 1963 Jackson began urging his protege to run for the House. Foley agonized and held back for so long that in the end he arrived in the state capital to declare his candidacy just hours before...