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...conservationists, urban renewers, landscape design ers, architects, doers of good and viewers with alarm who met in Washington last week for the White House Conference on Natural Beauty (see THE NATION) was Mrs. Mary Lasker, 65, whose qualifications as beautifier are beyond dispute. Among other things, Mary Las ker is a devoted philanthropist and sup porter of Democratic Party causes, and a warm friend of President Johnson's at whose side she sat last month at a' Waldorf dinner for party contributors. New Yorkers know her best as the city's unofficial green thumb...
...also Mary who generated much of the family interest in medical research. Early in their courtship, Las ker had asked Mary what she wanted most to do in life. She replied: "I want to push the idea of health insurance Most people can't afford adequate medical care. And I want to help promote research in cancer, tuberculosis and other major diseases...
...Ker v. California (1963) provided Mapp's first test amid charges that the court had "handcuffed police." But Mapp forbade only "unreasonable" search and seizure: Ker upheld the right of Los Angeles police to make an arrest and seizure after they entered a narcotics-peddling couple's apartment without a warrant. The cops had "probable cause" to suspect what they would find. Appellants George and Diane Ker stayed in prison for possession of marijuana...
Lucky Curve. Founder George Par ker was a telegraphy teacher back in 1888 when he became tired of the primitive fountain pens of the day and invented a pen of his own. His business surged after he developed the "lucky curve" -a curved ink-feeding device that prevented ink from leaking when the pen was stored upright in a user's pocket. He kept adding technical improvements, caught the public fancy with such gimmicks as the showy orange and black Duofold pen that be came the raccoon coat of the pen indus try in the 1920s, and soon...
...Ker & Downey, biggest of Nairobi's safari firms, is already considering setting up shop on the Bechuanaland border as a hedge against a bad slump in Kenya...