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...spent 15 years fighting the Communists. A bitter, brown gnomish man called the "Little Tiger," Yen last week, as he always does, was walking every step of the way with his 1,400-man Vietnamese task force in Operation Concord. Beside him was his adviser, U.S. Marine Major William Leftwich, 34, whom one of his superiors has called "the best American adviser in the country." They set out early in the dazzling morning sun, trudging past the napalmed black bodies of V.C. killed in a battle the week before...
Packaging Johnson. Kennedy's opponent, Senator Kenneth Keating, last week hired small Weiss & Geller to handle his ads. In Chicago, Needham, Louis & Brorby is carrying the banner of Republican Charles Percy against Governor Otto Kerner's agency, Kennedy & Heyne; in California, Pierre Salinger has engaged the Walter Leftwich Organization against George Murphy's Sanford Weiner. Other candidates dispense their business to home-state agencies, almost as a form of patronage, and many also take on public-relations agencies to prepare press kits, write speeches and help the campaign manager form the candidate's image...
Married. Virginia Leftwich ("Gigi") Graham, 17, eldest of Evangelist Billy Graham's five children; and Stephan Tchividjian, 23, son of Millionaire Financier Ara Tchividjian, the Baptist minister's most active Swiss supporter; in a religious ceremony (which followed by six days the mandatory Swiss civil ceremony) that was presided over by Graham, who also gave the bride away; in Montreux, Switzerland...
...Campbell Kirkwood, who had started as a stock checker right out of high school in his home town of Provo, Utah 36 years before. Trim, quiet-spoken Bob Kirkwood, 54, did so well at the job that he became president and chief executive officer in 1958, when James Thomas Leftwich moved up to chairman (Leftwich resigned three months...
...Robert C. Kirkwood, 53, executive vice president since 1955 of F. W. Woolworth Co., largest U.S. variety-store chain (2,121 stores in the U.S., Canada and Cuba), was named president, succeeding James T. Leftwich, 69, who remains as chairman. Bob Kirkwood had decided on a career in pharmacy after high school, was lured away from a drugstore in his home town of Provo, Utah, by the glowing picture of dime-store opportunity painted by a local Woolworth manager. He started as a window trimmer, became a store manager in Denver at 20, soon proved to have the proper mixture...