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...Louchheim started composing poems for her family, to wrap up special sentiment with Christmas or birthday presents. Most of her writing is done late at night at a desk in her Georgetown bedroom or on holiday at the family's summer house on Cape Cod, but poetry has become far more than a hobby. "My psyche demands it," she says. "It's my escape hatch...
Divorced. By Forbes Burnham, 43, Prime Minister of Guyana (formerly British Guiana), newest nation in the Western Hemisphere: Sheila Lataste Burnham, 41, a former Trinidad optician; on grounds of desertion (he said that she left him, refused to return); after 15 years of marriage, three children; in Georgetown, Guyana...
When State Senator Franklin Delano Roosevelt moved from Albany to Washington in 1913 to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he took up residence with his wife and young children in a comfortable rented house on N Street in Georgetown. After a few months, 30-year-old Eleanor Roosevelt, even then a woman of wide and active interests, found it difficult to manage a household while keeping up with the capital's intellectual and social whirl. She hired a social secretary to work, as she later recalled, "three mornings a week." Her new helper was tall, strikingly attractive Lucy...
...accompaniment of a 100-voice choir formed especially for the occasion, Archbishop Patrick O'Boyle will officiate at the Nuptial Mass, assisted by two priests: William Kaifer, who was Luci's chaplain while she attended the Georgetown University School of Nursing, and John Kuzinskas of Chicago, who married the bridegroom's elder brother Gerard, now a Marine lieutenant in Viet Nam. Gerard will be best man in absentia; his father, Gerard Sr., will stand proxy for him. And so, after a ceremony of 60 minutes, Miss Luci Baines Johnson of the White House and Johnson City, Texas...
Near the speaker's stand in Georgetown's Queen Elizabeth Park, Negro Prime Minister Forbes Burnham threw both arms around his bitterest enemy, the Marxist ex-Prime Minister Cheddi Jagan. Moments later, the lights dimmed, a band struck up God Save the Queen, and in solemn midnight darkness the Union Jack, which had flown over British Guiana for 152 years, slid slowly down the pole-to be replaced by a new five-color (green, red, yellow, black, white) flag. Thus-with the Duke and Duchess of Kent looking on as Britain's official representatives-did the tiny...