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...newest job in Washington is also the hottest; in addition to being responsible for new U.S. space weapons and weapons defenses, the director of the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency must also be able to defend himself against sharpshooting from Congress and from the three armed services. Picked for the post last week by Defense Secretary McElroy: squarejawed, cool-eyed Roy W. (for William) Johnson, 52, vice president of the General Electric Corp. Johnson will resign from G.E. (but keep "substantial" G.E. stock), take over ARPA April i after two weeks of briefings for an assignment that...
...Alaska's energetic young (38) Republican Governor Mike Stepovich, and the prospect that Alaskan Senators might turn out to be Republican after all. Informal polls in both House and Senate show that the Alaska statehood votes are in the majority. The balmy territory of Hawaii, once considered the hottest prospect for statehood, will probably be left out in the cold this session...
Around recording studios, where the best musical reputations are stubbed out during coffee breaks like smoked-down cigarettes, a West Coast lad named Jimmie Rodgers currently enjoys unanimous popularity. Jimmie is one of the hottest new singing properties in the trade. Without the benefit of Elvis' sweaty circumvolutions or Pat Boone's white-buckskin charms, 24-year-old Jimmie figures to rake in $200,000 this year. The charge that propelled him to success, a ditty called Honeycomb recorded several months ago for a small New York label, hymns in strongly rolling accents the wonders of birds, bees...
Billy Doux. In Tryon, N.C., 14-year-old Billy Rockman auctioned off his entire collection of love letters for a local Red Cross drive, got 27? for the hottest item, addressed to "Sugar Doll...
...pleasant, occasionally touching image of togetherness in sunny suburbia. But the boys are also lineal descendents of Tom Sawyer. Penrod and Skippy in a tradition of carrying a dead goldfish in pants pocket, enduring the first black eye and the first crush on teacher, selling water on the hottest day of the year and seeing through the emperor's clothes with such remarks as "A picnic is when you go out in the country and eat food off the dirt." Writer-Producers Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, who are fathers as well as savvy old hands at scripting radio...