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...hand to hand among presidential candidates-last week landed in the middle of Dwight Eisenhower's news conference. What was the President's reaction, a newsman asked, to a recommendation made last July by a special presidential committee chaired by William H. Draper Jr., investment banker and industrialist? The Draper committee's recommendation: the U.S.. as part of its foreign aid program, should heed requests for assistance from nations trying to curb runaway population. Mindful of the furor raised by the U.S. Catholic bishops' recent statement opposing such use of U.S. funds (TIME...
...restrictive laws on divorce grounds to invoke the untidy one of adultery, named one "Mrs. J.R." as corespondent. To Tycoon Onassis, Tina's legal blockbuster came as a "surprise." For Soprano Maria Callas, 36,, for weeks in print as a friend of Onassis, and separated from Italian Industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini, the suit triggered a quick conference with Onassis in Monte Carlo. Then Maria flew back to her villa in Milan, pleading innocence of any and all storm-brewing. But who was the shadowy Mrs. J.R., accused by Tina of being Onassis' great and good friend...
...president of the syndicate that has organized Boston's new professional football team confirmed yesterday that Harvard Stadium is the "prime target" of the group. William H. Sullivan, Jr., local industrialist, said, "Getting the Stadium is as important to us as a good coach...
Bixler's trademark has been a constant stream of exciting outside lecturers. One week he mustered Educator Robert Hutchins, Philosopher Brand Blanshard, Industrialist Clarence Randall, Novelist Robert Penn Warren. Sometimes the results startled Bixler himself. "I am continually delighted by the student response," he once said. "There is this marvelous rising to quality. They know the genuine and the authentic. They are appealed to by the truly worthwhile...
...York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, intent on establishing an independent Republican identity in his try for the presidency, seems to assume as much. Said he in a recent speech: "Our people are looking for a sense of direction and purpose." In agreement is Chicago Industrialist Charles Percy (Bell & Howell cameras), who last month led a committee that set G.O.P. goals. Predicted Percy last week: "National purpose will be a more important issue in the 1960 campaign than in any previous peacetime campaign...