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...says Jack Kennedy. "I just show up." The brothers have an extrasensory communications system with each other: Bobby rarely has to consult Jack when confronted with a difficult decision; he acts quickly and instinctively. A young man of brutal honesty and impeccable integrity, Bobby frequently antagonizes politicians with his blunt opinions and untactful tactics. Says Jack: "Every politician in Massachusetts was mad at Bobby after 1952 [when he managed Jack's first, successful Senate campaign], but we had the best organization in history...
Died. Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen, 78, president of Chicago's Board of Health for 29 years, a widely read writer on baby care; of cancer; in Chicago. A tireless fighter against epidemic, Bundesen once said, with his usual blunt sense: "I'm obnoxious and noisy, but Chicago has the best damn health record in the world...
...seminary educated him, the church conferred priesthood on him and the hierarchy entrusted him with an apostolate. Furthermore, the practice of the virtue of poverty, enjoined on every priest, demands personal detachment from all worldly possessions, both in life and more so. in death." Other publications were more blunt. Complained the Jesuit monthly Miles Christi: "When priests draw their wills, 95% of their possessions end up in greedy relatives' hands, and the church is completely forgotten.* Priests always call on others to contribute to the church, but have little themselves to contribute in life and noth...
...chief of a government dominated by Belgian "advisers" and propped up by a 7,000-man Belgian army, Moise Tshombe looked mighty like a puppet of Brussels. Operating on this theory, Hammarskjold early last week sent one of his aides flying off to Belgium with a blunt appeal: Remove your forces from Katanga so the U.N. can take over. Within hours, the envoy flashed back word of Belgian acceptance and Hammarskjold happily went on the air with an announcement that U.N. troops would move into Katanga at week's end. Dag then sent the U.S.'s Ralph Bunche...
...Thomas G. Lanphier Jr., 44, onetime vice president of General Dynamics' Convair Division, was appointed vice president in charge of planning of the Fairbanks Whitney Corp., a big (1959 sales: $149 million), diversified manufacturing outfit. Lanphier's outspoken criticisms of the Administration's defense effort and blunt attacks on rival missile makers brought down the wrath of General Dynamics Chairman Frank Pace, who forced Lanphier out. Lanphier then campaigned for his longtime friend, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, whose special assistant he had been when Symington was Secretary of the Air Force. When Symington lost...