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...problem of geography is more serious. If, in the vicissitudes of politics, he should be nominated and elected this year, Lyndon Johnson would be the first Southerner to become President since Andrew Johnson (no kin) was inaugurated in 1865. And since Andrew Johnson, an excommunicated Tennessean, lost his credentials as a Southerner by remaining loyal to the Union during the Civil War, Lyndon Johnson would in fact be the first bona fide Southerner in the White House in 110 years, since the brief (16 months) administration of Louisiana's Zachary Taylor.* In his efforts to escape the presidential segregation...
...anti-inflationary note was introduced into cancer research last week. Dr. David A. Karnofsky reported that for preliminary testing of anti-cancer drugs he uses the fertilized egg of the sand dollar-a lowly echinoderm, kin of the starfish, and a delight to beachcombing children...
...York Journal-American Columnist Leslie Gould, whose wife is Althea O'Hanlon, assistant vice president of Capital and a close friend of Murchison's, charged that Murchison (no kin to the wealthy Texas Murchisons), armed with inside information, sold two-thirds of his shareholdings around the time when Capital stock was at a peak ($41.50) four years ago, later bought back his stock at substantially lower prices, quadrupling his former shareholdings. His law firm has been paid $588,500 in legal fees by Capital in the past six years...
...ruler) Abdul Rahman, 65, English-trained lawyer and Malayan state chief who, when Malaya became an independent federation within the British Commonwealth in 1957, was elected to a five-year term as the nation's first nonhereditary king (at the same time that Tengku [prince] Abdul Rahman, no kin, became the federation's Prime Minister); in his sleep; in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya...
...century who suffered some remarkable visions from which he derived the arcane principle: "Nature applied to nature transforms nature." * Bergman's domestic milestones: married at 25 to Dancer Else Fisher, divorced after two years, one daughter; married at 27 to Stage Director Ellen Bergman (no kin), divorced after five years, two sons, two daughters; married at 32 to Journalist Gun Grut, divorced after nine years, one son; married at 41 to Pianist Kaebi Laretei, his present wife...