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...tall new buildings, the bustling St. Johns River traffic, the tony seaside country clubs-Jacksonville is more akin in spirit to nearby cracker towns in south Georgia than to cosmopolitan southern Florida, and seems to have reverted to type. Its newest school was named after Civil War General Nathan Bedford Forrest, and even the kids knew that "Fustest with the mostest" Forrest was one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan. Mayor Haydon Burns is a 48-year-old segregationist with his eye on the Governor's chair and a shuddering distaste for doing anything to promote racial...
Divorced. John Robert Russell, 42, the 13th Duke of Bedford, who opened his 3,000-acre Woburn Abbey estate to the public (including nudists, on a strictly rental basis) to pay his taxes; by Lydia Yarde-Buller, 42, aunt of the Aga Khan; after 13 years of marriage, one son; in London...
...little over a century ago, in the bustling seaport of New Bedford, Mass., a man and a boy found a common interest. The boy, Albert Pinkham Ryder, the son of the town's jack-of-all-trades, was only eleven at the time. But town legend has it that every so often he would cross Mill Street to watch his neighbor Albert Bierstadt, 28, paint. In time, both left their home town to seek their fortunes as artists, but if their paths ever crossed after that, there is no record of it. Last week, as New Bedford...
...museum walls, and one after another, they found their way to storerooms and attics. Critics dismissed them as huge postcards, and some declared that it was more Bierstadt's commanding manner than his talent that had brought him such high prices. But last week viewers at the New Bedford show could see why the story did not end there...
...confusion, there was a delay before anyone took the step necessary to positively identify the strange satellite: informing the Air Force's newly established surveillance center in Bedford, Mass. It is the surveillance center's job to take all observations on satellites from all friendly observing centers, both optical and electronic, feed them into computers to produce figures that will identify each satellite, describe its orbit and predict its behavior. Says one top official, explaining the cold facts of the space age: "The only way of knowing that a new satellite has appeared is by keeping track...