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Died. Arthur Kittredge Watson, 55, former chief of IBM's international operations and ex-U.S. Ambassador to France; following a fall at his home; in Norwalk, Conn. Son of IBM Founder Thomas J. Watson Sr., Watson rose to become chairman of IBM World Trade Corp., while his older brother Thomas Jr. took the reins of the parent company. Making his motto "world peace through world trade," he presided over a rise in IBM's foreign sales from less than $50 million to $2.5 billion annually. A major Republican contributor, Watson in 1970 was named U.S. envoy...
...ruling is probably Louisville, where a federal judge last week ordered city and suburban school districts merged to facilitate desegregation; an appeals court may well use the Detroit case as grounds to overturn the order. Cross-district busing cases are also being pressed in Indianapolis, Atlanta, Wilmington, Del., Hartford, Conn., and a number of other cities. School officials in those communities will now have to look inside their districts for solutions to racial imbalance...
...centuries of American politics, there have been only three women Governors, and all three-Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson of Texas and Lurleen Wallace of Alabama-followed in their husbands' footsteps. Congresswoman Ella Grasso, 55, of Windsor Locks, Conn., is not accustomed to following in anyone's footsteps; her husband of 32 years is a retired school principal, and the toehold she won in the statehouse in Hartford was strictly her own achievement...
STRATFORD, Conn.--One of the tasks of the theater is to reassess the works of our playwrights a decade or two after their original productions. As part of its 20th season, the American Shakespeare Theater is fulfilling this function by turning for the first time in its history to a play by a living American dramatist...