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Next to trying to figure out whether Kennedy or Nixon will win in November, Washington's most intriguing political preoccupation is trying to guess who would people the winning Cabinet. Neither candidate is about to confide his list yet, even if he had one waiting in his inside coat-pocket. Nor is he about to make premature promises, when uncertainty makes all potential Cabinet members campaign hard for the candidate. Sideline guessers can claim no inside dope. But here are some of their choices...
Long & Hard. The biggest man-made object ever placed in space, Echo I is a plastic balloon as high as a ten-story building, with an aluminum coat that refleets radiomagnetic waves of frequencies up to 20.000 megacycles. Its skin is only .0005 in. thick-about half as thick as the cellophane on a pack of cigarettes. Packed accordion-fashion into the nose of a Thor-Delta rocket fired from Cape Canaveral, the 136-lb. satellite was filled with sublimating powders that expanded into gas in the direct rays of the sun and caused the balloon to inflate itself...
Although John Shakespeare applied for a gentleman's coat of arms around 1576, he slipped into money troubles and was dropped from the list of aldermen. Will had not been overly prudent himself. According to parish records, he and Anne Hathaway were married posthaste, without the customary three readings of the banns-Anne was three months pregnant. By Elizabethan standards, Anne's pregnancy was no great scandal, but her age -an antique 26 or so to Will's 18-was. The sole clue as to how they got on together is a rather ambiguous bequest in Shakespeare...
...prudent investor and a bit of a snob. He bought a piece of the players' company, a piece of the Globe, and eventually paid ?60 for New Place, the second grandest house in Stratford. In 1596 his father pushed his long-dormant claim to a coat of arms, and the Shakespeares
...Diet courtyard, where he was collecting signatures against the treaty, a Socialist bigwig was stabbed in the shoulder by a mechanic who said he was fed up with Socialist violence. Socialist Deputies cornered Kishi in a corridor of the Diet building and shoved him about, grabbing his coat and yanking his necktie. "You're responsible for all this!" they shouted. "It wouldn't happen if you'd resign...