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...Chileans have a keen pragmatism, as shown by your story. A while back, a conservative Chilean cousin of mine was visiting in the U.S. His name: Guevara. When I asked him if we were related to "Che," he smiled slyly and quipped, "Aquí no; en Cuba...
...child he was fastidious. 'He once said he didn't like to ride the school bus,' a cousin remembers, 'because the other children didn't smell good.'" So begins an intriguing account of the early years of Richard Nixon in this week's LIFE by Staff Writer Donald Jackson, who spent weeks searching out and interviewing the President's relatives, boyhood friends and old acquaintances. From an early age, Jackson writes, Nixon was "a serious child; he was never a giggler." Nixon's mother recalled: "Most boys go through a mischievous...
Silenced Spokesman. Frank King. 24, a Detroit medical student, was given two years in prison. Michael Woodridge. 25, King's British cousin, was sentenced to 15 months' confinement. Though neither man was known as a far-rightist in his home country, both were arrested in East Berlin last summer for pasting up propaganda posters bearing Nazi swastikas. They joined three other Americans in East Berlin's grim Hohenschoenhausen prison: Jack Strickland, 28, who was sentenced two months ago to four years for alleged border violations and supposedly trying to slip East Germans out of their walled...
Richard W. Bulliet, assistant professor of History, is the cousin of Robert Fassnacht, the graduate student killed in the August explosion at the University of Wisconsin. "The fact that I'm in 1737 Cambridge Street along with the DAS doesn't make me very happy. I intend to take the book I'm working on out of there as soon as possible. Last year there was a bomb threat in 1737 and everyone took it very casually. Next time, I'm running to the Square...
...Masher, which looks like a kissing cousin to a small filing cabinet, has been under development for three years It is now deemed completely safe. A key-presumably kept out of reach of children and would-be suicides-must be turned, a button pushed and the door closed before it will work. The machine had a successful test run last fall in Houston, Atlanta and New Orleans, few prospective customers seemed upset over the somewhat stiff purchase price...