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...pegged at $1.11, the tourist can get it on the black market for anywhere from 25? to 66?. But it is also dangerous, as two young American tourists discovered last week. Hauled before a Leningrad court were Buel Ray Wortham, 25, of North Little Rock, Ark., and Craddock M. Gilmour, 24, of Salt Lake City, who had made the mistake of talking about their black-market dealings in the presence of their Intourist guide. In addition, Wortham was accused of stealing a "national treasure" from his Leningrad hotel room - a 22-in. statue depicting a Russian bear that was shot...
...Macmillan, worried that Britain would lose some of its privileged status as the U.S.'s closest collaborator. British genealogists wistfully recalled that Kennedy's late sister Kathleen was the wife of the Marquess of Hartington, a nephew of Lady Dorothy. But the Spectator's editor, Ian Gilmour, predicted: "America under a Kennedy administration is going to be an exciting place. Europe will need monkey glands to keep up." One British official countered hopefully: "While the Prime Minister is older, we think he has a young mind...
Died. Ralph Gilmour Brooks, 62, a fast-talking (once clocked at 487 words per minute and nicknamed "Babbling") school superintendent who in 1959 became the first Democratic Governor of Nebraska in 18 years, was running this year for the U.S. Senate; of a heart attack; in Lincoln...
...discontent with the Benson farm program. Kyi, an attractive, articulate TV newscaster and clothing merchant, was careful to dissociate himself from Ezra Benson: "Please note that I do not run the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Mr. Benson most certainly is not a candidate in this district." But Democrat Gilmour, associate professor of political science at Grinnell College and a hardworking, handshaking campaigner, poured it on: "A vote for my opponent is a vote for Benson...
...issue of positive thinking. Republican Kyl bore down hard on Eisenhower's peace and prosperity, offered his own constructive solutions to the farm scandal (e.g., an acreage-retirement plan, which would pay the farmer a bushel of surplus corn for every bushel taken out of production). Gilmour stuck doggedly to the Benson issue. Said Farmer John Augustine, a Democrat: "Gilmour made a mistake in running against a straw man. He didn't have a positive thing...