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Administrative Monstrosity. The great-grandson of a slave and the son of a postal worker, Weaver grew up in segregated Washington. He trained in his teens to be an electrician, but could not penetrate the union's color bar. Instead, he went to Harvard, where he earned three degrees, including a doctorate in economics. In 1933 he became an aide to Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, in the first of a long succession of Government and state posts he has held, most of them in the housing field. Along the way he taught at three universities, served as board chairman...
Richard's great-grandson stumbled onto that, he spirited it off to Munich's Karl and Faber auction house to sell for pocket money. "Götterdämmerung!" the family muttered when they heard what Wummi was up to. When the auction house refused to withdraw the sketch, the Wagners bid it back from themselves for $26,200, and dolefully paid $5,700 in commissions to the auctioneers. Wummi got not a pfennig...
...been called behind his back, to his face he was more properly addressed as "Mr. Ambassador," and in Affairs at State, retired U.S. Diplomat Henry Serrano Villard, 65, describes him and his breed with an insider's sympathy and savvy. He is admirably equipped for the job. A great-grandson of Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, Villard joined the Foreign Service in 1928 after graduation from Harvard and a brief try at teaching and journalism, spent the next 34 years in outposts from Tripoli and Teheran to Rio and Oslo as the U.S. inexorably enlarged its international role...
Died. Clifford Stanton Heinz III, 25, great-grandson of Food-Company Founder H. J. Heinz and heir to a share in the $40 million family fortune; by his own hand (.25-cal. pistol), following several years of general despondency and psychiatric treatment; in Chicago...
...General Abboud was overthrown in a coup last year, and recent elections held in the Moslem north (TIME, May 28) were convincingly won by the conservative coalition led by 29-year-old, Oxford-educated Economist Sadik el Mahdi, the great-grandson of the famed Mahdi who massacred the British at Khartoum in 1885. As El Mahdi's nominee, Mahgoub was acceptable to all sides. A gifted Arabic poet, the new Prime Minister also has degrees in law and engineering, became Foreign Minister when his country won independence in 1956, and led the Sudan's first delegation...