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Aided by a strong tailwind and throngs of encouraging spectators. Will Rodgers took command of the 79th running of the Boston Marathon at the Wellesley checkpoint and sped to a record-breaking victory yesterday, winning in the phenomenal time of 2 hours 9 minutes and 55 seconds...
...York's Chemical, the country's seventh biggest bank, paid the defunct Security National company, which had been the 79th largest, $40 million for its assets. Explaining the speedy takeover, Chemical Chairman Donald C. Flatten said that Comptroller Smith "wanted it done quickly." Added Flatten: "The public interest was involved...
After a round of farewell parties in Saigon, Bunker will move on to Nepal, where his wife Carol Laise presides over the U.S. embassy, and celebrate his 79th birthday. Then a leisurely return home via Rome and London-skipping Paris, he interjected-a look at his homes in Washington and Vermont, a visit to his daughter in Brazil, and finally a return to Washington for reassignment. "As far as the U.S. in Viet Nam is concerned," he said, "the degree of progress is that we can work ourselves out of a job." Bunker may have worked himself out of Viet...
Perfect Sense. It is the mark of the eccentric that he considers himself normal; it is only the world that views him as odd. To Allen, the East 79th Street duplex in Manhattan that he now shared with Louise made perfect sense. It had a striking Aubusson rug, a Tiffany lamp, a newly decorated interior. His old apartment had contained a bed in the middle of the floor-and little else. The new main room held a billiard table -and nothing else. The ceilings concealed tiny spotlights to illuminate pictures on the walls. But there were no pictures...
...other action Sunday, the U.S. Air Force and Navy fighter-bombers made their 79th "protective reaction" strike inside North Vietnam this year. Pilots said they knocked out two enemy anti-aircraft guns 80 miles north of the demilitarized zone...