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...very ablest men in public life during the past 20 years." Adds another Cabinet member: "In this Washington scramble, the most refined form of cannibalism ever devised, it's just about impossible to find anybody who has anything nasty to say about Bob Anderson." Says Economist Gabriel Hauge, White House economic adviser from 1953 until last year: "Intellect, character, dedication-these are words that it is almost embarrassing to use today. Cynics have all but destroyed them. But I have to say them about Bob Anderson. He is a man whom the old-fashioned words...
Blocky, sandy-haired Harry Howard, 40, general manager of a Los Angeles machinery company, is president of San Gabriel Valley Lodge 1710 of B'nai B'rith, the national Jewish benevolent association. Last week he filed an appeal with B'nai B'rith Grand Lodge headquarters in Phoenix, Ariz. to prevent his expulsion. The ground for the proposed ouster: Harry Howard is an elder of the Mormon Church; therefore...
...snowstorm in leaving the Pyrenees, and nearly came to grief on the main street of Vaduz when their car almost collided with a herd of cows. The delegate representing the haL'-square-mile domain of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace was Monaco's commissioner general of tourism, Gabriel Olivier, who arrived with a secretary and a head cold. San Marino, a landlocked mountain peak in northeastern Italy, sent a Belgian lawyer and musicologist who also serves as San Marino's consul general to Belgium and Liechtenstein. "They couldn't spare anyone from San Marino," explained Baron...
Space flight is a quantum jump in technology. Behind its thunderous engines and jewel-like instruments lie thousands of jobs of research, each calling for patient, often frustrating experiments. Major U.S. center for this sort of basic work is a quiet laboratory nestled against the San Gabriel Mountains on the outskirts of Pasadena. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory does not build giant rockets or their engines. It specializes in the long-range research that makes them possible. If and when U.S. spacemen match and outdo the Russians, J.P.L. will deserve a major slice of credit...
...Great Conservative. Ecuador hustled Flores off to Europe in 1845 with a pension, and underwent 15 years of anarchy. For the next 15, the country was ruled by the greatest Ecuadorian of the 19th century. Gabriel Garcia Moreno hated democracy. He was a conservative, a working Roman Catholic who dressed in black, went daily to Mass and revered Thomas à Kempis' The Imitation of Christ; he believed that "only through force may good be attained." But he also despised militarism, gave the country a uniform currency, the first highway between mountainous Quito and seaside Guayaquil, established an efficient treasury...