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Nixon checked into Walter Reed's presidential suite (carefully paying the $34-a-day rental out of his own pocket) for a fortnight of treatment. His left leg was put in traction to keep the knee immobilized, and he was soon responding to injections of penicillin and erythromycin...
Ever since 1956 when he outraged flinty old Syngman Rhee by getting himself elected Rhee's Vice President, Dr. John M. Chang, 61, has dreamed of some day becoming No. 1 man in South Korea. With Rhee's downfall last April the way was clear, and fortnight ago Seoul's National Assembly by a vote of 117-107 elected Chang to the premiership, the real seat of power under South Korea's new constitution. But last week intelligent, soft-spoken John Chang found his dream turning into a nightmare...
...offered mild demurrers (said one: "We need more experimental work to give us complete assurance of a safe return''), but few of the world's scientists doubted last week that man at last was nearly ready to launch himself boldly and bodily into space. When, a fortnight ago, the U.S.S.R.'s 10,143-lb. "flying zoo" floated gently to a landing before the startled eyes of peasants on a collective farm northeast of the Caspian Sea, Russia demonstrated unquestionably that it has mastered the techniques necessary to rocket a man into orbit around the earth...
Marriage Revealed. Claude Rains, 70, veteran British-born actor; and Rosemary McGroarty Clark, 42, a ghostwriter currently working on Rains's autobiography; he for the sixth time, she for the third; fortnight ago in a place the couple coyly declined to disclose...
Williams was hauled into federal court in Dallas fortnight ago in bankruptcy proceedings against his Williams Petroleum, Inc. Besides losing the money his backers invested, Williams ended up owing $264,471 to more than 200 creditors for everything from flowers to drilling rigs, including a $340 bill to the Diners' Club. In fact, he told the court, he had no money to pay for a lawyer. Asked by his creditors' attorney whether he ever inspected his books, Williams replied politely, "No, sir." Requested to examine his balance sheet (which under "cash on hand" carried the terse entry: "None...