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Introducing Interior Secretary Stewart Udall to 108 U.S. Olympic medal winners at a White House luncheon, President Johnson described him as a onetime "star guard on the baseball team" at the University of Arizona. An aide later issued a correction, said the President had really meant football. Actually, Udall was a basketball guard, and a good...
...retrial opened in Miami Federal District Court last month, Dr. Hastings had hopes of winning the first damage verdict in the history of the tobacco-cancer controversy. His hopes began to fade when Judge Emett C. Choate started his charge to the jury. Implied warranty, explained the judge, only meant that the product must be "reasonably fit and safe for the ordinary purpose for which it was sold." The issue, he continued, was not whether Green died of cigarette-induced cancer; another jury had decided that. This jury was simply to determine whether "a large segment, a responsible segment...
...Reactionary. In his four score years, Dan Poling has whipped up a mountain of dust. When he was a high school student in Oregon, his father told him: "Make your life count for the most." For Poling that meant becoming an ordained minister. In 1912 he was the Prohibition Party candidate for Governor of Ohio (he lost, but remains an unwavering teetotaler). A Dutch Reformed clergyman, he has served at Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church, first as pastor and, since 1960, as minister emeritus. For the past 37 years, he has been editor of the Christian Herald, pulling...
Logical Customers. The new executive line-up is meant to maintain the initiative. Tooker will administer the company and oversee investments, which lean more strongly than in most companies on Government bonds but also stress mortgages on one-family homes ($500 million worth) occupied by the kind of people who are logical customers for multiple insurance. Meanwhile, DeWitt will concentrate on Travelers' newest venture. The company is moving overseas. Beginning with insurance on the growing number of U.S. corporations and families at work abroad, it intends to go on from there to spread its umbrellas around the world...
...with laughter at my ignorance, let me in on where babies come from, but I didn't believe it. After awhile we agreed to become a Biology Club, not through any interest in biology, though my brother, a character at DeWitt Clinton High School, had told me what it meant, but because being a Biology Club opened the delightful prospect of carving the date on a park bench followed by the letters B.C., to confound future archaeologists...