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Died. Gene Farmer, 52, a senior editor of LIFE who went from the Ozark hills into the presence of prime ministers; of a heart attack; in Lexington. Mass. After earning a journalism degree at Northwestern University, Farmer joined the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Gazette, where he soon became city editor. During his 27 years with LIFE, he moved through a succession of key assignments including sports editor, London bureau chief and foreign news editor. He was active in recent years in editing and condensing major works for publication in LIFE. Among them: Douglas MacArthur's memoirs, Arthur Schlesinger...
...spending would go to the poor. Part would be spent by the Government to upgrade education, fight pollution, improve rapid transit and hire people who cannot find jobs in the private economy. Private investment would probably suffer. But McGovern's brain-trusters-mostly economists at M.I.T., Harvard, Yale, Northwestern and Princeton, who get advice from Maverick John Kenneth Galbraith-are not worried. They argue that U.S. business would be kept humming, thanks to increased Government investment and more spending by the no-longer poor...
...cable car was hurled like a giant cannonball from the No. 2 mine shaft of the Wankie Colliery in northwestern Rhodesia, burning a row of papaya trees before it came to rest 50 yds. away. That was the first sign of the disaster. An explosion, possibly emanating from a dynamite magazine, had devastated the major shaft of the mine that produced all of Rhodesia's coal. On or near the surface, four men were killed instantly. Hundreds of feet below, 426 miners -390 of them black, 36 white-were trapped amid rock and deadly methane and carbon monoxide fumes...
...prominent Chicago businessman, Massee was foreman of the coroner's jury that investigated the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929. He helped finance the work of ballistics experts in identifying the murder weapons, and their techniques so impressed him that he persuaded officials of Northwestern University to establish a facility to study scientific methods of crime detection. Among the laboratory's achievements was the development of the lie detector...
...McGovern, already a solemn young man, still more somber and earnest. Back home, he plunged into history studies at Dakota Wesleyan, then went off to study for the Methodist ministry. The limitations of the clerical life soon disillusioned him, and he switched to graduate work in American history at Northwestern University, taking a master's and a Ph.D. The subject of his dissertation was the Colorado coal strikes of 1913-14, which culminated in the Ludlow massacre of miners and their families...