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...impeccable, and in their own less boisterous fashion, fully as overwhelming as the Kennedys of Massachusetts. No fewer than 24 of Jackie's ancestors came over from France to fight in the American Revolution. All went back to France with Lafayette, but young Michel Bouvier, inspired by his cousin's tales of the new frontier, came to Philadelphia in 1814 and became a prosperous importer. The Bouviers have been prominent on the American side of the Atlantic ever since. Jackie's grandfather, John Vernou Bouvier Jr., was a spellbinding trial lawyer, an authority on George Washington...
Using Kivu as their staging area, 600 of Gizenga's men invaded the Katanga stronghold of Secessionist Moise Tshombe. Installing two Lumumba supporters (one of them Lumumba's cousin) as heads of a new territory to be known as "Lualaba," the invaders occupied village after village in Katanga's northern wilds, where the local Baluba tribesmen were happy to welcome any enemies of the Tshombe regime. At Manono, center of Katanga's tin mining, the interlopers stopped, dug in, and announced establishment of Lualaba's new capital...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.). An adaptation of The Prisoner of Zenda, in which Christopher Plummer doubles as King of Ruritania and Cousin Rudolph. With Farley Granger, Inger Stevens and Nancy Wickwire...
Died. John Walter Ruskin, 82, second cousin of Victorian Tastemaker John Ruskin, who became an explorer to meet a stipulation in his father's will that he must spend a substantial inheritance entirely on world travel; of cerebral arteriosclerosis; in Charlottesville, Va. Among Dr. Ruskin's involuntary travels: a 4½-year investigation of Baffin Island's "white Eskimos," whom he decided were descendants of marooned Norwegian explorers...
Died. George Washington Earp, 96, former cowboy and last of "the Fighting Earps;" in a Joplin, Mo. nursing home. First cousin to gunman, gambler and sometime cop Wyatt now sanctified by TV, George Earp rose above his Dodge City relatives to become a U.S. Marshal and Internal Revenue agent...