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...beginning in 1963, was devoted to the support of Asian arts and cultural exchanges between the U.S. and Asia. John D. III recently gave his superb private collection of Asian art (valued at over $10 million) to the Asia Society, which he established in 1956. He was a prime mover in the development of Manhattan's Lincoln Center, to which he gave $11 million...
...assistant to his friend and former classmate, Ted Kennedy. Democrat Culver ran for Congress from a Republican district in Iowa in 1964, sweeping into the House on Lyndon Johnson's coattails and increasing his margin of victory in each of the next four elections. A prime mover for congressional reorganization, he entered the 1974 Senate contest when Harold Hughes bowed out and is favored...
Midday Friday, the presidential party of 350 persons, including 130 newsmen, will fly to Saudi Arabia, where President Nixon will spend l½ days with King Faisal. Although the King was the prime mover behind the oil embargo after the October war, he has nonetheless maintained his ties to the U.S. Last week Kissinger and Faisal's half brother, Prince Fahd, signed an agreement in Washington that had the aim of assuring the U.S. a steady flow of oil while Saudi Arabia gets American technical assistance to spur on its economy. During his talks with the King, Nixon...
...poky Aerocrane probably will never be practical as a people mover, but it could be economically put to other uses. Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, a strong advocate of lighter-than-air vehicles, is encouraging the Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee to study the potential of blimps, dirigibles and hybrid airships as bulk cargo transporters during hearings this summer. All American Engineering already foresees such chores for its Aerocranes as lifting logs out of remote timberland, unloading container ships that are too large to come into port, and delivering fully prefabricated houses directly from factory to home site...
Booze was about the only thing the Duke ever retired from. He was an unceasing forward mover in a career that spanned two World Wars, that took him from the streets of his native Washington, D.C., to dinner dates at the White House and that saw him compose such jazz classics as Sophisticated Lady, Caravan and Don't Get Around Much Anymore. Said the late Billy Strayhorn, who composed the Duke's theme, Take the A Train: "He not only doesn't live in the past, he rejects it, at least as far as his own past...