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...houses. Floyd had an even better notion. He built a fence between his face and the world. Ever since, he has paid his own personal exterior decorators $3,000 a year to camouflage his phiz whenever he mingles with the public. Decked out in a false nose, mustache and beard, Floyd certainly doesn't look like Floyd. Autograph hunters keep thinking he's Thelonious Monk...
Back at base camp, at 9,000 ft. on the Yukon Territory's Mount Kennedy, the mountaineer peered red-eyed through a three-day growth of beard, stripped to the waist in the - 10° cold, gave himself a rubdown with the contents of a cup of hot water. Then he settled down to a dinner of chicken soup, T-bone steak, instant mashed potatoes with butter, Madeira wine, vanilla ice cream and coffee. Shortly thereafter, New York's Democratic Senator Bobby Kennedy crawled into his sleeping bag for a nine-hour snooze...
...spectacular growth, Rorimer still prowls the museum like a bemused headmaster. Wearing ankle-high combat boots that go back to his Army days,* he roams the halls, wiping dust off display cases, bellowing "Please don't touch the art objects!" when kids tweak a sphinx's beard, or sternly lecturing an adult caressing a caryatid's curple: "That's 4,000 years old. If everyone who saw that had touched it, it wouldn't be here...
...Beard of Navy, who placed only third in the individual medley against Harvard in December, edged Yale's Ed Townsend to win the gruelling 400-yard individual in 4:26.9, breaking the old record held by John Pringle of Harvard. In the 500-yard freestyle, defending champion Harrison Merrill of North Carolina nosed out Princeton's Chris Brown to win in 4:58.1, also a new meet record...
...Angeles executive suite of rival Continental Airlines, it picked a new boss who has won a reputation as one of the industry's brightest young men. Braniff's new president: Harding Luther Lawrence, 44, Continental's executive vice president, who will succeed retiring President Charles E. Beard...