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...months of research, a budget of $7,000,000* and the Workshop's wonted imagination have wrought. Judging from several prescreenings, The Electric Company, the new daily half-hour reading series for 7-to 10-year-olds, is a worthy sibling of Sesame Street, and a bright second cousin to Laugh-In in its youthful prime...
...Justice John Harlan, 72, a very distant cousin of Black's, is also hospitalized. Should he resign, too, Nixon would have his fourth vacancy to fill...
...heart attack; in Los Angeles. That no one knew Romanoff's precise age is a fitting footnote to the life of a legendary impostor who at various times passed himself off as Rasputin's assassin, the son of Victorian Prime Minister William Gladstone and a cousin of Czar Nicholas II. Actually, there is evidence that he was born Harry F. Gerguson, the son of Russian immigrants. After trying his hand at farming, peddling papers and bumming, the flamboyant phony with the Oxbridge accent migrated West in 1927. In Hollywood, Romanoff was accepted as an off-camera actor...
...coast of Plymouth, England, and took lessons in sailing, rock climbing, canoeing and camping, they were watched from shore by Secret Service agents peering through binoculars. A youth conspiracy under scrutiny? Actually, the watchers were agents assigned to protect ten-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr., who with his cousin Anthony Radziwill had enrolled for two weeks in the youth center for the standard fee of $75 a person. "I'm not sure why Mrs. Onassis decided to send him to us," said an official of the center, "but we are getting quite well known abroad for the course...
...cheek muscles start to ache from holding a perpetual cheery smile. I ask a pilot "Going west?" and he answers "Yup." He consults his employers, and suddenly I am climbing into a Mitsubishi twinjet, courtesy of a gruff Chicago executive named Joseph Salvato, a first-generation Sicilian whose cousin John jokingly calls him "God." We land at Hinsdale, Ill., 17 miles from Chicago...