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...Empire, London-born (as Alice Marks) Prima Ballerina Alicia Markova, 47, long renowned for her Giselle; to the knighthood, Author-Biologist Julian Huxley, onetime director-general of UNESCO. The world featherweight boxing champion, Nigeria's Hogan ("Kid") Bassey, 25, learned that he had flailed his way to another laurel-Member of the Order of the British Empire...
...married twice. It was no fault of [my first wife] that our marriage collapsed. I am survived by my second wife, and one small, redheaded, beautiful daughter who was the apple of her daddy's eye. Her name is Laurel...
...laurel-hung veterans closed a chapter. In Hollywood, after only a year of a three-year NBC contract, Producer-Director Fred Coe announced that he was quitting the network. Said Coe, who developed such playwrights as Paddy Chayefsky and Horton Foote, and put on Television Playhouse, Producer's Showcase and Mr. Peepers: "Plans and ideas that I have submitted have either been ignored or have drawn no interest. On the other hand, I have been given no assignment. A silent telephone on your desk is a terrible thing." In Manhattan, after seven successful years in daily morning...
...achieved by fiery Diosdado Macapagal, 47, who not only won election as Vice President on the opposition Liberal ticket but racked up more votes than President Garcia himself. In doing so, he defeated the man the U.S. most wanted to see defeated-Garcia's running mate, Jose Laurel Jr., a pouchy-eyed lover of nightclubs and strong drink who remarked to one Nacionalista audience: "To hell with the Americans." Laurel's campaign was marked by handouts of cigarette lighters and switchblade knives, and the appearance of contraceptives inscribed: "Be safe with Laurel." (The Nacionalistas indignantly insisted that...
...rebelling against the Nacionalistas' cynical attempt to force on them Jose Laurel Jr., and splitting their votes to elect Macapagal, Filipinos had taken a major step toward mature democracy...