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...eastern Kentucky as the Happy Pappies. As they demonstrated the blessings of the poverty program, other local residents-mostly the pappies' wives and small children-harvested potatoes behind a mule-drawn plow on Will Handshoe's land beside Upper Quicksand Creek. Will, 72, who is distant kin to Floyd and unchallenged patriarch of the valley, had foresightedly taken the day off to go squirrel hunting...
...Property. Under English law, which has filtered through the colonies to the states, a man's body is not his own property to "devise and bequeath." Nor is it technically the property of surviving kin, but since they are responsible for giving it decent burial, they have won the right to decide what shall not be done with a relative's body...
...Yosemite Falls plunges in perfect perspective from under the top of the picture frame into the valley below. Painter Bierstadt traveled to the Athenaeum summers until his death in 1902 to gaze at his masterwork, often dabbing here and there where the paint had flaked. As Fairbanks and his kin passed on, the collection grew through bequests, now numbers 87 paintings and ten sculptures, including works by Jasper Cropsey, William and James Hart and Thomas Moran. Today the Athenaeum remains unchanged. The gaslight chandeliers have been electrified, the timeless hush is occasionally broken by construction next door. But the deep...
...Amos Burke, Secret Agent. I Spy (NBC) will follow a top-seeded tennis amateur and his trainer who are in reality professional spy guys. Honey West (ABC) is a girl, but with Anne Francis in the role she is a fully Bonded sort of private eyeful. James West (no kin to Honey) disguises himself as a moneyed gentleman with his own railroad car, while working secretly for President Ulysses S. Grant. West heads off post-Civil War international plots against the U.S. that history never heard about, evidently because West was so successful. The CBS show is called...
...Listening approvingly at Skouras' elbow was the man who has prodded all the shipping executives to search for new solutions: Nicholas Johnson, a 30-year-old landlubber and former law professor (at the University of California), who was named Maritime Administrator 18 months ago by Lyndon Johnson (no kin). Nick Johnson has been suggesting ideas that are more drastic than any ever voiced by his predecessors, including the first head of the Maritime Administration, Joseph P. Kennedy...