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...lists. They were meant mainly as souvenirs and included a warning in small type that they were good only for viewing the oath-taking and parade. Somehow one went to an inmate at a Texas state penitentiary, another went to a child who, having been elected president of her grade-school class, had written Carter on how to win the presidency...
...quite ready for speaking parts, but two show-business newcomers made their camera debuts last week. Appearing for the first time in Los Angeles: Richard Francisco Thomas, first son of that bright-eyed doer of good deeds on The Waltons TV show, Richard Thomas, and Wife Alma, a former grade-school teacher. "I was expecting a girl," said Dad, adding that he would probably keep trying. At the same time, in London, Jason Lawson took his first bow as well. He is the son of Actor Leigh Lawson and former Disney Pollyanna Hayley Mills, who is still awaiting her divorce...
...have sent to the White House a remarkable assortment of gifts to mark the Bicentennial in personal, imaginative and warmly affectionate ways. More than 700 presents have arrived, ranging from expensive objets d'art crafted by professionals to projects lovingly sewn, knitted, hammered or stuck together by grade-school classes. The White House has made no attempt to encourage, or even publicize this totally spontaneous patriotic happening...
...backyard fallout shelters and grade-school air-raid drills is mercifully bygone. But nuclear warfare is by no means implausible. Despite the existence of various accords, the race to accumulate atomic firepower proceeds...
...days when, known to his friends as "Mooney" or "Momo," he ran the Chicago underworld. His rise in the crime organization built by Al Capone began in his teens on Chicago's West Side, where he was born in 1908, the son of an immigrant grocer. A grade-school dropout, he joined the Chicago Mob as a wheelman, or getaway driver, then graduated to triggerman. Convicted of moonshining in 1939, he managed to turn his four-year sentence to his advantage by cultivating the friendship of Edward Jones, the policy king of Chicago's South Side...