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...Texas' Omar Burleson, an ex-FBI agent and chairman of the purse-string Committee on House Administration, bought $86.45 worth of doodads (pen set, calendar-pad holder, etc.) for his office in Abilene, charged it off to his committee, even though he had received a specific $1,200 allowance for office supplies. On another occasion, Burleson traveled 1,128 miles by car to investigate "election matters" in Texas (his own district included), charged the trip off at 10? a mile...
...colored vests introduced by Wilde and Disraeli." When he got home, he turned the family hacienda into a lucrative model of science and mechanization, went back to economics as a director of Peru's Reserve Bank, making it into a modern central bank. He dabbled in journalism as holder of controlling interest in a struggling little newspaper called La Prensa. World War II took him to the U.S.: Washington (as ambassador), Bretton Woods (to help organize the World Bank), San Francisco (to help set up the U.N.). Returning to Peru, he built La Prensa along U.S. newspaper lines into...
Champion Hayes Alan Jenkins, 27, announced that they have been engaged ever since last August, will marry at April's end. Moaned Carol: "This must have been the world's worst-kept secret." Jenkins, holder of four other world figure-skating crowns (one less than Carol), is now a fledgling corporation lawyer in Akron; New York University Junior Heiss plans to finish college at the University of Akron. Now that she was telling all, Carol talked of long-made plans to turn her silver skates'into gold-and become...
...even 5 ft. 76. The holder of the world record in the high jump, a college freshman, was back in the air after recovering from a serious injury. His name: a) John Thomas. c) Gordie Howe...
...York's busy over-the-counter market, the stock of the obscure Oreclone Concentrating Corp., holder of a process of treating low-grade iron ores to make them commercially usable, created a sensation. Issued last fall at $3 a share, the stock bounded to $30. But three weeks ago the price plunged from $28 to $2 in eight hours. Last week, after investigating this giddy performance, New York Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz charged that "professional racketeers, promoters and boiler-room operators" had bilked investors of $4,000,000. Only this time, said Lefkowitz, the public had company...