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Minnesota. Jaunty, fast-talking Hubert Humphrey, 49, is a child of the South Dakota dust bowl who cannot forget that New Deal relief programs saved the customers who saved his family's drugstore. Mastermind of Minnesota's potent Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, erudite ex-Professor (political science) Humphrey first talked his way to the Senate in 1948. He can be counted on to lead his crusade for true-blue liberalism come recession, prosperity or the millennium...
...Steve Smith. Brother Ted Kennedy was ordered to San Francisco, to supervise campaign operations from the Rockies to the Pacific Coast. Denver Lawyer Byron ("Whizzer") White assumed command of the volunteer Citizens for Kennedy-Johnson groups, and 30 regional coordinators went forth to arbitrate local squabbles and mastermind campaigns in 30 states...
...with Premier Patrice Lumumba to act as adviser for the development of the new nation's mineral, oil, gas and hydroelectric-power resources. Through the company he organized only a month ago, called Congo International Management Corp. (CIMCO), Detwiler hopes-if the Congo Parliament ratifies the deal-to mastermind projects to build airports, pipelines, highways and hospitals in the Congo and to train the Congolese to run them. Crowed Detwiler: "We have rescued the Congo...
...mastermind the family merger, Getty appointed his affable, efficient son, George Franklin Getty II, 35, who has spent only six weeks with his father since the first year of his life, still refers to him as "Mr. Getty." But his father keeps in close touch on business matters, sends him as many as 20 notes a week from abroad. George, who quit Princeton after only one year ("I knew I wanted to go into the oil business, so why waste time?"), has been put in charge of streamlining the Getty domain. He worked in most of its outposts, was made...
Died. Ernst Heinkel, 70. German airplane pioneer, designer (with a propulsion unit developed by Wernher von Braun) of the world's first (in 1939) rocket plane (the He 176) and jet-propelled aircraft (the He 178), a shrewd mastermind of Luftwaffe production whose farseeing predictions and plans were thumbed down by Hitler and Goring; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Stuttgart, West Germany. Denazified in 1949, Heinkel made motor scooters and midget cars, recently announced plans to go back into big-time planemaking with Willi Messerschmitt...