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Ridiculous Details. The team is led by a former Governor of Florida, genial Farris Bryant, 52, who is the director of the Office of Emergency Planning but serves also as Johnson's chief engineer and evangelist of creative federalism. Last week federal men boarded one of the President's Boeing 707 jetliners, touched down in Washington State and Alaska to meet firsthand with their state counterparts. So far, the task force of better than a score of federal officials has visited 19 states. The problems they have encountered have been as diverse as America itself...
...favorite horse, chat with attractive women and tell amusing stories on himself. Last week, as the two men marched up the aisle of Brasilia's Chamber of Deputies building for the swearing-in, a grim Castello Branco looked straight ahead; Costa, relaxed and enjoying himself, threw genial glances to friends and relatives. After the oath of office, Castello Branco stiffly shook hands with Costa's wife, lolanda; Costa, by contrast, warmly kissed the hand of his predecessor's daughter, then those of Castello's two granddaughters...
...When Parker died at 64 last July, Los Angeles set out to find a successor skilled in "community relations"-the art of enlisting citizens to help prevent crime, rather than relying on repression after it happens. Last week the city found its man in Thomas J. Reddin, 50, a genial giant of a career...
Died. Henry F. Schricker, 83, Indiana Democratic politician, the only man to serve two terms (1941-45 and 1949-53) as his state's Governor, the genial backslapping son of an immigrant Bavarian storekeeper who was known as "the man who never made anyone mad," nevertheless had enough iron to clean up his state's inefficient tax-collection and welfare systems; of a heart attack; in Knox...
...Kill Uncle. "You're a charming child, Barnaby," says dear old Uncle as he smiles (or is he merely showing his teeth?) at his twelve-year-old orphan nephew. "But five million dollars charming, you're not." What Uncle means to say in his usual genial way is that since he stands to inherit Barnaby's estate if Barnaby should have a fatal accident, he intends to make sure that Barnaby has a fatal accident-fast...