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...Hernández himself who patched up the Popular Democrats after their 1968 loss. A lawyer from Ponce, the island's largest city after San Juan, he assumed leadership of both the party and the Senate in 1969 with the tacit approval of Luis Muñoz Marín, founder of the party, architect of the commonwealth agreement and, more than anyone else, father of modern-day Puerto Rico. This year Muñoz campaigned for his protégé. Hernández reorganized the Popular Democratic Party from top to bottom, replacing older leaders with...
...Clemente, Lyndon Johnson's ranch. In years to come, the presidential style of leisure may be considerably grander. Last week Nixon signed a bill accepting an official new winter hideaway for the Presidents. It is Cereal Heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post's 110-room, $7,000,000 Mar-A-Lago, in Palm Beach, a kind of Moorish Xanadu built on 17 acres of hard coral between the Atlantic ocean front and Lake Worth...
...Post, 85, has provided that the place be turned over to the Government at her death, along with a $200,000 per-annum trust fund for upkeep. Mar-A-Lago is a treasure of colonnades and turrets, built of stone from Italy, 36,000 tiles made in 15th century Spain, frescoes copied from the Medici Palace in Florence, silk needlework panels from the Venetian Doge's palace. Suites are done in Louis XVI style or in Spanish or Early American. Outside are a nine-hole golf course and archipelagoes of reflecting pools and fountains...
Restic had particular praise for Eeet halfback Mar Wheeler, who streaked and pirouetted through the baffled Umass defense for 150 yards on 11 carriers. Wheeler, a transfer student from the University of Washington, turned in a flawless performance according to the coach...
...hasn't had a fight in a year and a half. His dismal life with a rummy mis tress (Susan Tyrell) and his struggles to get back into boxing are intercut with the exploits of a younger but no more hopeful fighter (Jeff Bridges), who mar ries because he has to and promises to end up pretty much like Tully himself...