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...left after three terms when he became disheartened by his relative lack of influence. He also wanted to make some money. He returned to Texas in 1954, entered the insurance business, and eventually merged his small-volume company with a prospering insurance firm in Lincoln, Neb. The merged outfit grew to become a major holding company with interests ranging from funeral homes to savings and loans, and by 1971 Bentsen had accumulated a personal fortune of $2.3 million. As a seasoned manager, he was asked to sit on the boards of Lockheed, Continental Oil and other large corporations...
...invited by Mao Tse-tung's government to lead a delegation of American women on a tour of Chi na. Although MacLaine was photo graphed in a bell-bottomed Mao outfit, her group could hardly be called rad ical chic. Among others it included a Puerto Rican, a Navajo, a black civil rights worker from Mississippi, a white George Wallace supporter from Texas, a Republican, a psychologist and a 12-year-old girl. There was also a four-woman camera crew who filmed a rec ord of the trip to produce a 74-minute documentary entitled The Other Half...
...difficult, if not thoroughly impossible, to believe that this was the same Columbia outfit which fell by just three points to the action's 10th-ranked Pennsylvania Quakers last weekend...
Coach Harvey explained yesterday some of the logistics of the organization. "We're very much a low-budget outfit," he said. "Our expenses have largely been met from guys scalping football tickets early in the fall...
...After months of unrest among dissident tribesmen, Ramanantsoa resigned on Feb. 5 and the honest, plodding Ratsimandrava took office. His death was announced by a new ruling military committee. It claimed that the short-termed President had been slain by members of the Republican Security Forces, a counterinsurgency outfit dissolved by Ramanantsoa...