Word: mets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Emerging from their stronghold in the plantation country near Punia, Schramme and his men began a march on the border city of Bukavu, once a resort for rich Belgian colonials. They met little resistance. Warned by jungle telegraph that the mercenaries were approaching, the defenders of Bukavu threw away their arms, commandeered civilian clothes, and fled across the Ruzizi River into Rwanda...
...International One-Design sloop to victory in the Amorita Cup in Bermuda, then sailed a 6-meter to victory in the British-American Cup at the Isle of Wight. As the song goes, it was a very good year: at a Manhattan cocktail party that September, he met Patricia Ryan, a pretty, dark-haired public relations assistant. "Neither of us ever had another date with anyone else-as far as I know," says Bus. Pat was no sailor, but she set out to learn: 14 months later, she and Bus were married...
Married. Anthony Bliss, 54, Manhattan attorney and longtime (1956-67) president of the Metropolitan Opera Association, which handles everything except the opera's artistic affairs; and Sally Brayley, 29, soloist in the Met's ballet troupe until last December; he for the third time, she for the second; in her home town, Prince's Lodge, Nova Scotia, on July 24, one month after he was divorced by onetime Actress (My Sister Eileen) Jo Ann Savers, 48, his wife of 26 years...
...Gushing, 24, former Girl Friday to Manhattan Fashion Designer Oscar de la Renta and daughter of Newport Socialite Howard G. Gushing; and Peter Hill Beard, 29, a photographer-writer specializing in African conservation (The End of the Game) and great-grandson of Railroad Baron James J. Hill, whom she met last year when she hurried to Kenya to care for her father, taken ill on safari; in an Episcopal ceremony followed by a reception for 400 guests; in Newport...
...Frankfort, Ind., and Dallas. In Dallas he discovered "an unhappy plant" because workers did not like the cafeteria menu and the manager refused to change it; Zender changed both the menu and the manager, brags that "now it is a happy plant." He and President Lloyd W. Elston, 40, met with independent candy salesmen whom Peter Paul's management had previously avoided, nearly doubled the advertising budget to $5,000,000 a year...