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Marquee Names. Looking back now, Hayley feels she was too dependent too long on her family. Until she was 19, her parents picked all her film roles. That seems understandable enough, since her father is Actor John Mills (Tunes of Glory), one of Britain's peerless pros, and her mother is Playwright Mary Hayley Bell. When the family was not on location, Hayley grew up in Berkeley Square, or on a Kent farm, and was educated at Elmhurst Ballet School. She and her brother Jonathan and sister Juliet were warned that the theater was "a jungle." But just...
Everett McKinley Dirksen, LL.D., U.S. Senator, Illinois. Peerless orator, gifted political leader, American statesman...
Died. Robert J. H. Kiphuth, 76, Yale's peerless swimming coach from 1918 to 1959, who was only a fair-to-middling paddler himself but had such an eye for form, such a fetish for physical fitness and such a commitment to his sport (he would sit at the bottom of the pool in a diving suit to spot flaws invisible from above) that he won 528 dual meets (v. only twelve losses) and four national championships for Yale plus four Olympic victories for the U.S.; following an intestinal hemorrhage; in New Haven, Conn...
Cavorting Whales. On Maui, known as "The Valley Isle," mangoes, papaya and passion fruit on the roadside wait to be plucked by the passing traveler. The newest and best resort hotels are going up along a peerless, three-mile stretch of white beach on the southwestern side of the Kaanapali area, where the low-slung Royal Lahaina, the Royal Kaanapali and the towering Sheraton-Maui, built on a lava rock outcropping, together share a $1,800,000 golf course, designed by Robert Trent Jones and blasted out of the slopes of Mount Puu Kukui. A $6,000,000 Hale Kaanapali...
Dick Goodwin, of Boston, Tufts, and Harvard Law School, was one of President Kennedy's young brain-stormers. Not yet 30, reputed to be as eloquent as the peerless Ted Sorensen but faster with his ghostwriting pen, he turned out the basic draft of J.F.K.'s famed Alliance for Progress speech. Later, L.B.J. tapped him for help in composing the even more famed Great Society address...