Word: sons
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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When I first visited Plains, Ga., in December 1976, a month after Jimmy Carter's election, the town was buoyed up by various brands of delight-a native son's handmade personal triumph, the daily spectacle of famous TV news faces bolting along the quarter-mile street between Jimmy's house and the heart of downtown, the onset of Christmas...
...they wait to see how much they'll get from their famous son-or how much they'll have to bear. Some of the burdens are already lifting. The carpetbaggers are leaving, Larry Flynt has closed his paper, the junk shops are starving. Jimmy Carter will be the youngest man since Calvin Coolidge to return from the White House; and surely neither he nor his equally impelled wife can predict their own movements or calculate their effects. They have not really lived in Plains for ten years. But though the townsmen are curious, they're not postponing...
...summer of 1979, Joseph P. Kennedy II--son of Robert F. Kennedy--decided to form a non-profit oil company to distribute low cost oil to the poor...
...succeeding her husband; by reason of "physical disability" resulting from cancer of the liver; in Hartford, Conn. Daughter of immigrants from Italy's Piedmont region, she rose through the state legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives, marrying a school principal, Thomas Grasso, and rearing a daughter and son along the way. In a typically forthright announcement, she said she would yield to Lieutenant Governor William A. O'Neill as of Jan. 1 because she no longer had "the stamina or the endurance" to handle...
...elected to Parliament at age 22 as a Conservative, later became an independent, then a Socialist Laborite, and finally embraced the ideology of Mussolini and Hitler. Held in detention as a national security risk during World War II, he later exiled himself to a villa in France. His son, Novelist Nicholas Mosley, said of him: "I see clearly that while the right hand dealt with grandiose ideas and glory, the left hand let the rat out of the sewer...