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Flying out of New York, Ike kept up the pace. He stopped off in Gettysburg for a modest $10-a-plate fund-raising dinner staged by Adams County Republicans. At week's end, he would move on to San Antonio to jump into a key congressional race. Battling for a vacant House Seat representing big Bexar County are liberal Democratic State Senator Henrv Gonzalez, 45, and conservative Republican John W. Goode Jr., a 38-year-old lawyer and former county chairman. Ike hoped to drum up enough support for Goode to add a third Republican to Texas' congressional...
...Texas G.O.P. has vigorous and youthful new leadership. U.S. Senator Tower is 36. State Chairman Tad Smith is 33, County Chairman Max Allen of San Antonio is 29, and County Chairman James Bertron of Houston is 31. Among those who signed pledge cards were some solid political pros, such as Breckenridge Oilman Jack Cox, 40, who picked up 619,000 votes (40% of the total) in challenging Governor Price Daniel in the Democratic gubernatorial primary last year. Cox appears set for an even more serious bid for Governor next year-as a Republican...
Died. Cayetano Ordonez, 57, one of Spain's outstanding matadors in the 1920s and the inspiration for Ernest Hemingway's stalwart hero, Pedro Romero, in The Sun Also Rises, who sired a family of five bullfighting sons, including Bull Slayer Numero Una Antonio Ordonez, whose suspenseful competition with Luis Miguel Dominguin was chronicled by late Aficionado Hemingway in The Dangerous Summer; of pneumonia; in Madrid...
...artist to whom Tiepolo was apprenticed gave him little more than a routine training, but the boy taught himself enough to get a major commission in 1715 at the age of 19. He married a sister of his contemporaries, Giovanni Antonio and Francesco Guardi, and life became one success after another...
...earth, for they often lie hidden during the day in camouflaged holes tunneled into the sandy soil. A dead Civil Guard was carried back to camp. The men of his unit shook their heads despondently; one of them began to weep. "Happens every night," said U.S. Sergeant Antonio Duarte. "Sometimes we have two or three skirmishes going on at the same time...