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...some 2,000 costumes, one of the finest in the world. It was assembled during the past 80-odd years by a number of donors, but the best of the clothes were given by a dedicated spinster, the late Elizabeth Day McCormick of Chicago (granddaughter of Reaper Tycoon Cyrus McCormick), who ranged Europe and the U.S., skimping on taxis and her own clothes, to buy a total of some 20,000 costumes, pieces of embroidery, books and prints, all of which she left to the museum...
...Force officials claimed that in a real crisis they could do it all over in a bare 40 hours-though in an emergency they would hardly have the time to plot every move with the painstaking care of chess masters. Other "Big Lifts" are tentatively being plotted. Army Secretary Cyrus Vance announced last week that full divisions will be airlifted to the Far East and the Middle East next year, and Defense Department officials are thinking of flying two full divisions to Europe in one massive operation...
...reassure Erhard and the rest of West Germany, a rapid series of "clarifications" flowed in from Washington. U.S. Army Secretary Cyrus Vance, in Frankfurt to observe Big Lift, declared flatly: "We have no intention of withdrawing any of our six division equivalents that are here." Secretary of State Dean Rusk, in Germany to dedicate a monument to the late George Marshall, conferred with Erhard and West German Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, added some pointed sentences to a scheduled speech...
...Hungary. Beitz has also initiated trade talks with Rumania; rumors persist that his visit with Khrushchev in May will lead in time to a new German-Soviet trade pact. Beitz is neither a profits-at-any-price executive nor as Red-Starry-eyed as the U.S.'s Cyrus Eaton, but he argues that "the great transition in the Soviet orbit is toward a consumer's society, and I don't think that this is in any way to our disadvantage...
...reason for the ruckus is the donor: Raymond Cyrus Hoiles, 84, a crusty, rasp-voiced publisher from Santa Ana. Calif., who plans to use Rampart College to promote the same "libertarian" philosophy with which he force feeds the 252,712 buyers of his five-state chain of Freedom Newspapers.* Hoiles's foes say he is to the right of Herod; he is, they say, an anarchist who carries laissez-faire economics to its illogical extreme...