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...British-born, Grey, 30, has been living in a void for 17 months, though he has been charged with no crime. He was confined to his Peking quarters in July 1967, in retaliation for the jailing of eight left-wing journalists for violating emergency regulations during last year's riots in Hong Kong. The Chinese, who once hinted that Grey would be released when the eight journalists were freed (they have been), now insist that 13 others seized since Grey's confinement must also be turned loose. Hong Kong authorities refuse to play the blackmail game...
Married. Richard Helms, 55, director of the CIA; and Cynthia McKelvie, 45, British-born mother of four and exwife of a prominent Washington surgeon; eight months after she divorced her husband of 25 years and four months after he divorced his wife of 29 years; in a Presbyterian ceremony at his brother's home in South Orange...
...Tycoon Problem. Soon given the added authority of chief executive, Wellman cut expenses and tightened operating procedures until First Charter Financial had developed one of the industry's most economical operations. But he ran into trouble with British-born Centimillionaire S. Mark Taper, the chairman, who had long run the company as a private fief. "My biggest problem has always been dealing with tycoons," Wellman says. "Perhaps it's because at heart I'm one myself." The two strong-willed men clashed over everything from loan policy to salaries for other executives, and Wellman resigned...
...Lewis Douglas, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's in the 1940s, and one of society's brightest and busiest career girls (public relations aide to New York's Mayor John Lindsay, fund raiser for numerous charities); and Andrew Mackenzie Hay, 40, wealthy British-born importer of gourmet specialties; she for the first time, he for the second; in a Presbyterian ceremony; in Manhattan...
Married. Erwin D. ("Spike") Canham, 64, editor of the Christian Science Monitor from 1945 to 1964 and its present editor in chief; and Patience Mary Daltry, 40, his British-born assistant book editor; he for the second time (his wife of 37 years died last August), she for the first; in Boston...