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...facing extinction; no species have already disappeared from earth just since 1800. Matta was relatively young (30), making $280 a month in an export-import firm in Paris, and marked for advancement. But he never hesitated. He threw over both present prosperity and future prospects to take a $160-a-month job as superintendent of the 2,000,000-acre Bouna game reserve, 500 miles upcountry from Abidjan...
...state. According to a story passed by the Moscow censors, Bulganin appealed to Khrushchev, who suggested that Bulganin retire on a pension. At 64, a pale shadow of the jovial, rotund figure who represented his country at the 1955 Geneva summit meetings, Bulganin now lives on a $300-a-month pension on the outskirts of Moscow, of which in his time he was mayor, an ailing and disgraced man who had once been wartime boss of Soviet industry, and Premier, until two years ago, of the Soviet Union...
Died. Arnold M. Johnson, 53, Chicago-born tycoon who worked his way up from a $75-a-month broker's apprenticeship to the vice-presidency of Chicago's City National Bank & Trust Co., later (1954) bought (for $3,500,000) the Philadelphia Athletics and moved the team to Kansas City; of a stroke; in West Palm Beach...
Married. Takako Suganomiya (meaning: noble, pure), Princess Suga, 21, jazz-loving daughter (youngest of five) of Japan's Emperor Hirohito; and Hisanaga Shimazu, 25, tall, thin, $50-a-month bank clerk; in a 20-minute Shinto ceremony in a Tokyo restaurant attended by Hirohito, Empress Nagako and Crown Prince Akihito, followed by a Western reception complete with cake and cutting...
Born on a remote farm, merry-eyed Teacher Mejia was 13 when she took over a rural classroom at a $3-a-month salary. At 16 she became a Roman Catholic nun, later went to Mexico for five years to help rebuild revolution-ruined villages. Then her father killed a man in self-defense, and she left her order. In despair, she found a new cause: devoting her life, energy and knowledge to teaching and off-hours building in Colombia's wild Caldas department...