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Died. Gene Farmer, 52, a senior editor of LIFE who went from the Ozark hills into the presence of prime ministers; of a heart attack; in Lexington. Mass. After earning a journalism degree at Northwestern University, Farmer joined the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Gazette, where he soon became city editor. During his 27 years with LIFE, he moved through a succession of key assignments including sports editor, London bureau chief and foreign news editor. He was active in recent years in editing and condensing major works for publication in LIFE. Among them: Douglas MacArthur's memoirs, Arthur Schlesinger...
George McGovern showed early foot. Hubert Humphrey rallied and faded. Ed Muskie made a late surge. A hotly contested primary? No, a hotly contested mock political convention at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., the boomingest of the quadrennial campus mass ventures into political prediction. Washington and Lee's convention also has the best record for accuracy. Since visiting Speaker William Jennings Bryan inspired their first mock convention in 1908, the student delegates have correctly predicted the presidential nominee for the out-of-power party a remarkable ten of 14 times. It has been 60 years, in fact...
This year's extravaganza got under way with a parade down Lexington's main street with bands, floats and real live jackasses. George Wallace's float, naturally, was a yellow school bus loaded with his mock delegates toting serious placards: REDNECK POWER. Another realistic touch was a token mob riding in a Jeep bearing the sign: MOCK
Harvard's rugby team fared poorly at the National College Championships in Lexington. Va. last weekend. The Crimson dropped an 18-13 decision to Georgia in the first round, and was subsequently shut out by Kentucky, 9-0, in the consolation game...
...American Revolution" celebration in Lexington on Patriots' Day, April...