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...Francis Gary Powers, after a 21-month imprisonment for his U-2 spy flight. Last week, two months after resuming her eight-year marriage (no children), raven-haired Barbara Powers swallowed 28 Nembutal sleeping pills-a near fatal dose-and lay unconscious for several hours in Washington's Georgetown University Hospital before she was removed from the danger list...
Died. Robert Woods Bliss, 86, adroit U.S. career diplomat, former Minister to Sweden (1923-27) and Ambassador to Argentina (1927-33), who with his wife, the former Mildred Barnes (heiress to the Fletcher's Castoria fortune), in 1940 gave their historic Georgetown estate, Dumbarton Oaks, to his alma mater Harvard, which turned it into a center of Byzantine studies and a meeting place for statesmen, notably for talks leading to the birth of the United Nations; of cancer; in Washington...
Back home in Pound, Va., townspeople were planning a welcoming ceremony to be held after Powers' release from Georgetown University Hospital, where he was sent for a physical examination. Having passed all his other tests, Powers was free to remain in the CIA if he wished, free to collect some $50,000 in back pay. Asked how he would spend it, Powers replied: "Slowly." Then he disappeared into a waiting Government car-leaving behind him a persistent feeling that some of his story remained untold...
Captain Mark Mullin won his trial heat in the mile in 4:19.7, but was out of the money in the final. Vic Zwolak of Villanova finished first in the title race in 4:09.3, followed by John Reilly of Georgetown...
After Philip left, the protests flared into a general strike. When panicky police met some 10,000 demonstrators with tear gas and bullets, Georgetown blacks set fire to Indian-owned shops. Finally 150 troops of the Royal Hampshire Regiment drove off the rioters at bayonet point. But the fires destroyed almost 20% of the city...