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The Toy Car. Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, Defense Minister in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet, has always inspired bitter antagonism from opponents both in and out of India. Abusive, rude and overbearing, Menon, 64, is a Western-educated intellectual who despises the West, a passionate foe of old...
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy remains his big brother's closest confidant; an Administration troubleshooter in foreign policy and national intelligence, he has acted with skill and dash in anti-racketeering and civil rights enforcement.
Besides running Deutsche Bank, Abs is a director of 25 of the largest German corporations, plays a major role in deciding where Germany's investment capital shall be sluiced. On the political front, he is an unofficial ambassador to the world's financial centers and a confidant of...
Died. Frank Fay, 64, wry stage and screen comedian whose up-and-down career was climaxed by his five-year performance as Elwood P. Dowd, the alcoholic confidant of that invisible, 6-ft. rabbit Harvey; of a rupture of the abdominal aorta; in Santa Monica, Calif. A gentle man of...
Died. Sumner Welles, 68, urbane, aristocratic architect of the U.S. Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America, a Grot-on-and-Harvard product who headed the State Department's Latin American Affairs Division at 29, as Under Secretary of State became the confidant of Family Friend Franklin Roosevelt and served...