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Died. Martin W. Clement, 84, president (1935-49) and board chairman (1949-51) of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who handled practically every job on the country's biggest road at one time or another, becoming a happy blend of operating and financial man, which let him maintain the Pennsy's unbroken record of dividend payments throughout the Depression while electrifying the line from New York to Harrisburg; of severe anemia; in Rosemont...
...TRIBAL WAR IN NIGERIA. In the bright and busy nation at Africa's southern tip, however, such difficulties seemed far away. Topless nighties were the talk of Cape Town. In Johannesburg, where last month's antique-car rally had drawn 69 entrants-from a 1907 Diatto-Clement to a 1938 Bugatti-the city was debating whether the miniskirt should be banned, and the ballet season began with performances by South African Stars Gary Burne and Phyllis Spira...
Cooling the Militancy. Masons and Catholics have been on the outs ever since Pope Clement XII in 1738 issued the first papal bull condemning the Masons on the ground that their beliefs and rituals amount to a false religion. Catholics are still forbidden to join the Masons under pain of excommunication. For their part, the Masons have seldom been reluctant in the past to condemn the Catholic Church...
...found himself under attack as an agent of "outside forces" trying to intervene in Tennessee politics. Instead of being a surrogate Johnson-Kennedy contest, the race turned into an out-and-out battle between Newcomer Hooker and the powerful Tennessee political machine controlled by Ellington and present Governor Frank Clement, who was running for the Senate in last week's primary. The organization, which has controlled the Statehouse for the last 14 years, proved stronger. Hooker failed in the urban areas he expected to carry, lost the Negro votes he had so stylishly courted. Ellington...
...Italy, he expressed his nobility in "the noble passion of lust." He also had an audience with Pope Clement XIII ("He looked jolly landlord and smiled") and charmed Lord Mountstuart, the 20-year-old son of Lord Bute, the favorite of King George HI. It was Boswell's big chance for a career at court, and he muffed it. He took Mountstuart to a whorehouse, brought him home severely plagued by Venus, was dismissed in disgrace from milord's retinue...