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...Rivers, who wears his silver mane in the style of his South Carolinian hero John C. Calhoun, ran scared, plastering Charleston with billboards and TV spots. Ten days before the primary, Rivers arranged to have 15 members of his committee flock to Charleston along with Admiral Hyman Rickover to inspect a Polaris missile facility and laud Mendel...
...least history," mused Depression-era Realist Thomas Hart Benton, 79. On hand to receive an honorary degree at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, Benton made a beeline for the old boardroom to inspect his wall-to-wall mural, Contemporary America. The crusty Missourian allowed that the 1930 painting reflected a nation entranced but not yet enslaved by technology. "Look at that train!" he said proudly, pointing out a black smoke-belching locomotive. "The machines of that day really had something for an artist. They weren't afraid to exhibit their power. Today's machines enclose...
Krulak had vowed to retire if he failed to win his fourth star by becoming Marine commandant, a job that went last year to Assistant Commandant Leonard F. Chapman. "I'm going to sit and inspect my fingernails for a while," says Krulak of his plans. "What I decide to do will be based on one thing: it must involve some opportunity to do something for my country...
...Happy Rockefeller and the Governor's Norwegian-born daughter-in-law, Anne-Marie, in the Governor's apartment overlooking Central Park. He took in the big town's other sights and, feeling the salt rising in his veins, even headed into New York harbor to inspect the Coast Guard's ocean rescue facilities on Governors Island before catching a jet back to Oslo...
...acting City Manager Ralph J. Dunphy said yesterday that he could not recommend either site to the School Committee, since he had not been able to inspect them. The site on DeWolfe St. might be too small for the classrooms, he added...