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Died. Kate Rockwell Matson ("Klondike Kate") Van Duren, 77, convent-educated hoofer who rode the crest of the Yukon gold rush as the best known of Dawson City's dance-hall dolls, wore a $1,500 dress and a tin-can tiara lit with candles as she coaxed slow pokes with high kicks, helped the boys whoop it up at $15 a pint for champagne; in her sleep; in Sweet Home, Ore. Kate always insisted primly that the gold-rushers treated her as a lady (the Mounties would not have it any other way), in 1933 married Old Sourdough...
...flood of refugees reached its crest, and southern Viet Nam doctors were hopelessly swamped, the Vietnamese Junior Chamber of Commerce appealed to its corresponding chapters in other lands for medical help. First to arrive were six doctors and three nurses from the Philippines, financed by contributions from schoolchildren. As "Operation Brotherhood" got rolling, in came three French nurses, four Japanese, 19 Nationalist Chinese, three Thais, five Malayans, two U.S. secretaries, and some 200 Filipino doctors, nurses, dentists, nutritionists, social workers. Aged 18 to 60,they manned 14 medical centers, traveled through the Mekong delta by canoe and sampan, by army...
...rules of good sculpture. A case in point is Stankiewicz's The Warrior, which is armored with a hatmaker's discarded boiler, has a butane-bottle head and a boiler-plate shield. The Warrior's spindly steel rod legs, girded with buggy wheels, and its limp crest of dangling BX cable give it'away. Says Stankiewicz: "It's most menacing from the front, but it's futile in spite of its posture...
...Everett McKinley Dirksen took a tight grip on the Eisenhower coattails, discovered they were a dandy answer for the vigorous door-to-door, factory-to-factory handshaking campaign waged by Democrat Richard Stengel. Dirksen, like Eisenhower, cracked Cook County, the Democratic stronghold, coasted to his second term on the crest of a comfortable downstate Republican vote that shot his majority to better than 300,000 votes...
...California, riding the crest of the Eisenhower wave and backed by Nixon, Knowland and Knight, amiable, conscientious Senator Tom Kuchel barely squeaked through in the fight to keep his Republican Senate seat from falling into the hands of flamboyant young (40) Democratic State Senator Richard Richards...