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Died. Major General Ivan Agayants, 57, high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer, a deputy director in the huge State Security Committee (KGB), whose twin specialties were NATO espionage and the dissemination of "black propaganda" to undercut enemy agencies; of undisclosed causes; somewhere in the Soviet Union. As one of three deputies in the KGB's Division I (foreign espionage), Agayants was responsible for the vast Soviet network that was recently the subject of an explosive LIFE article by onetime French Agent Philippe Thyraud de Vosjoli...
...carefully, and accurately, mentioned that armed rednecks guarded the State Capitol during Dr. King's funeral, but you missed the great efforts of Atlanta's mayor, Ivan Allen, to keep the peace, not only that week but throughout his term. He knows that peace cannot be enforced but must be desired by the populace. He has done everything in his power to give all Atlantans a reason to be proud of their city. Georgians have roundly condemned the actions of our exceedingly small Governor. Atlanta remained dignified mostly because of Mayor Allen and the students of Atlanta University...
Harry Truman signed on as honorary chairman, symbolizing, along with James Farley and George Meany, the old guard. Senators Walter Mondale of Minnesota and Fred Harris of Oklahoma represent youngish liberals. There were senior Congressmen from Wisconsin, Michigan, Texas and California. Representative Hale Boggs of Louisiana, Mayor Ivan Allen of Atlanta and former Governor Terry Sanford of North Carolina stand for the moderate South. Other prominent names: Economist Robert Nathan, vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action; Ben Heineman, chairman of the Chicago and North Western Railway Co.; Richard Maguire, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee during the Kennedy Administration...
...Johnson's Boy, an unflattering account of Lyndon as a Texas politico, due in June, now seems hardly momentous. Though continued reader interest in Johnson may help rescue many of the books scheduled before his-or their-withdrawal, publishers all at once seem more interested in biographies of Ivan the Terrible and Ethelred the Unready...
South Toward Home. The flurry of Negro outrage that followed the murder in Memphis was conducted mostly by high-spirited youths-and was more than compensated for in solemn grief. As soon as he learned of the shooting, Atlanta's Mayor Ivan Allen Jr., one of the South's best-accredited white civil rights advocates, called Mrs. Coretta King-who only last January had undergone major surgery-and arranged a flight to Memphis. At the Atlanta terminal, Allen received word that King had died at the hospital, and he broke the news to the widow in the foyer...