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Died. Virgil Blossom, 58, school superintendent of Little Rock, Ark., during the 1957 integration crisis, who won the city's 1955 Man of the Year award for his "Blossom Plan" for peaceful integration (a little at a time over a seven-year period), but ran afoul of Governor Orval Faubus when he tried to implement it, was later forced from his job and his state when he became a target for both sides in the struggle: of a heart attack; in San Antonio, where he had been school superintendent since...
...Lilienthal was only 34, with a reputation as a labor-law expert and a job on Wisconsin's Public Service Commission, when Franklin Roosevelt tapped him in 1933 for the TVA. The most energetic of the authority's three directors, Lilienthal pushed TVA into public power, running afoul of private-utility magnates, notably Wendell Willkie, then president of Commonwealth & Southern. Bold and confident, Lilienthal was capable of shrewd self-appraisal. "Mentally on the quick side, resourceful; ingenious, particularly in discussion and strategy development," he wrote of himself. "But not profound, nor capable of understanding subtle psychological analysis. Impatient...
According to everyone except Dean Burch, William Miller, and Barry Goldwater, President Johnson will sweep to an unprecedented victory in today's election unless he runs afoul of some of the perplexing imponderables of the campaign. Will a significant, as yet hidden, conservative bloc creep from under the rocks to cast their ballots for the Republican candidate? Will Johnson devotees, their eyes glazed by astounding poll results, neglect to visit the voting booth and put down a mark for their man? Will moderate Republicans, fearful of giving Johnson too sizeable a mandate, vote instead for his opponent in a reverse...
...original mocean picture-and Blood, as somebody remarked at the time, was thinner than water. But Son never lacks excitement. In rapid succession Sean 1) takes passage in a tall ship sailing from Port Royal, Jamaica, 2) falls in love with the beauteous Abigail (Alessandra Panaro), 3) runs afoul of Captain De Malagon, a nasty pirate who hated Captain Blood and is happy to loose his fury on the son and his lust on Abigail, 4) seizes the nasty pirate's ship, 5) storms a citadel, 6) frees all the slaves, 7) can't think of anything more...
Married. Marcia Kubitschek, 20, comely daughter of former (1956-61) Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek, 50, who fathered the $600 million inland capital of Brasilia but ran afoul of the country's new revolutionary government, which recently stripped him of all political rights for ten years; and Baldomero Barbara Neto, 25, son of a wealthy Brazilian industrialist; in Lisbon...