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...suspension of the charter was withdrawn two weeks after the controversy began. The report of the Special Committee called the charges of vote-fixing invalid. The freshman who began it all was attacked as a publicity hound...
Historical Footnote. Nor is he a headline hound. His name alone assures heavy coverage, his activities have made most of it favorable, and his common sense precludes him from pushing his luck. Even on such an emotional issue as the plight of Vietnamese refugees, Kennedy has been low-key. He had studied the problem closely for two years, while quietly getting the Administration to provide additional medical and other assistance, before he staged open committee hearings this fall. In January he plans to return to Viet Nam for another check on the treatment of civilians...
...Gernreich and Bass separated. Four years later, with Bonwit Teller anxious to carry Gernreich's clothes and Hanson determined to have him exclusively or not at all, they too broke. "Rudi is a supreme egotist," says Bass, who now runs gas stations. Echoes Hanson: "He's a publicity hound...
Died. Hulbert Taft Jr., 60, cousin of "Mr. Republican," the late Robert A. Taft, and chairman of Taft Broadcasting Co., which owns 16 radio and TV stations and produces Huckleberry Hound and The Flintstones kiddie cartoons; when leaking bottled gas exploded while he was on one of his frequent inspections of the family bomb shelter that he had constructed on his estate; in Indian Hill, a Cincinnati suburb...
...Instead of the fiery prophet Lenin, the obsessed and brutal Stalin or the bub bly and unpredictable Khrushchev, it is led today by an oligarchy of sober, cautious bureaucrats who embody the country's new striving for respectability. Under the aegis of Premier Aleksei Nikolaevich Kosygin, 63, whose hound-dog countenance is better known in the West than the two or three others with whom he shares power, the government is experimenting with economic liberalization and cautiously widening the still narrow limits of individual freedom and expression. Ideology, long the great bugaboo of Soviet life, is being sacrificed...