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...friends, was a staggeringly generous $16 million plus, along with custody of their son Edsel, 14. Daughters Charlotte, 22, and Anne, 21, were not at issue, since they are not minors. With the marriage finally sundered, Ford was free to wed his friend of four years, Italian Divorcee Christina Austin, 34, who now lives in Manhattan...
...hours with top security aides, mapped the U.S. response to Castro's peevish move. Then, abruptly, he announced he would leave Washington, fly to Texas for the funeral of Mrs. Jesse C. Kellam, a longtime family friend and wife of the manager of Lady Bird's Austin television station...
...same program was a sample of modern jazz, Larry Austin's Improvisations for Orchestra and Jazz Soloists, in which Trumpeter Don Ellis, Drummer Joe Cocuzzo and Bassist Barre Phillips took off on some flights of fancy that had their opposite numbers among the Philharmonic deskmen slackjawed. Ellis hit licks on the music stand with the mouthpiece of his trumpet; Phillips performed tricks of bowing that Juilliard never taught. It was loud, and toward the end, it was every-man-for-himself. But it was also great fun for the performers and audience alike...
...Gratitude. In the course of those negotiations, Reynolds said, it was suggested to him by Walter Jenkins, then and now a top Johnson aide, that he buy advertising time on Lady Bird Johnson's radio-TV station in Austin. Reynolds said he bought $1,208 worth of advertising on the station...
...guiding hand in this rush of activity belongs to Chairman Austin T. ("Joe") Cushman, 62, who seems too soft-spoken and shy to be chief executive of a bullish corporation like Sears. "I met him at dinner one night," says one Chicago businessman, "and it took me all evening to discover that he ran Sears." Inside the company, Cushman is not so reticent. Unlike retired Predecessor Charles H. Kellstadt, whose job he took over two years ago, Cushman delegates responsibility liberally and treats subordinates genially, but keeps a cold eye on profit and loss reports. "Men, merchandise, methods and money...