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First there were the 17 girls who were eliminated from the finals early in the week, but had to pretend they were still in the running for appearances' sake. "How could I tell him I'd already lost?" said one lovely contestant about the home-town friend who had stopped by to wish her luck. Then officials in charge of the telecast from Miami Beach pronounced Miss District of Columbia's long blonde hair unphotogenic, demanded that she have it cut and darkened. "I don't want to change what I am," wailed Miss District...
...Washington, all bars and most restaurants close at midnight on Sunday. It was well after midnight on Sunday, April 4, when Joseph T. Smitherman, 35, the race-baiting mayor of Selma, Ala., and his home-town friend, Attorney Joe T. Pilcher Jr., 35, decided they were hungry and thirsty...
Married. Ringo Starr, 24, noisiest (drums) Beatle of them all, and Maureen Cox, 18, a Liverpool hairdresser, his home-town girl for the last three years; in a civil ceremony; in London. When they put their heads together, what with his moptop and her pageboy, it was a trifle difficult to tell which was which...
...Capitol Hill. If the President's proposals are enacted, as seems probable given their home-town appeal and their concessions to Catholics (the most numerous single denomination in Congress), the Office of Education will have to draw more than ever on the talents of Frank Keppel. The proud owner of just one earned degree, a Harvard College A.B., Keppel was made dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education at the age of 32, went on to gain a vast unofficial influence in educational circles because he was so often consulted on appointments of top-level school superintendents, such...
...Welterweight King Emile Griffith) were impressive enough to make him the betting favorite at 11-10. But they hardly awed Champion Giardello, 34, who was fighting his 127th professional bout. Counterpunching craftily, scoring heavily with short, chopping hooks, Giardello won a lopsided victory, to the delight of 6,000 home-town fans...