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...Senator Pell is a real smoothie, all right," said a Newport matron, "but this colonel is really dragging him up and down over the coals." The colonel in question is Lieut. Colonel Briggs, U.S.A. (ret.), a brisk-mannered, parade-ground-voiced old campaigner who is gunning for the Rhode Island Senate seat of Democrat Claiborne Pell...
...Poker Face" during the war-is the choice of Republican Governor John Chafee and the G.O.P. state central committee, and is thus the strong favorite to win the Republican primary next month. Confident of this, the colonel last week officially opened the campaign with all sights trained on Claiborne Pell and November...
...Javits, 62, stepped in for a swing while Bobby, 40, hooted pleasantly from the sidelines. The Senior Senator cracked a clean single-uh, clean, if you don't count some fumble fingering in centerfield. Daughter Joy Javits, 17, who was a ringer (she's on Senator Claiborne Pell's staff), then brought her balding pa pounding home with a triple. Thus inspired, "The Old Men" eked out a 28-17 win. Two-four-six-ache, who do we appreciate? Jake, Jake, Jake. Yeah...
Fast Resuffle. The passion for pilgrimage has made the airlines the fastest-growing industry in the U.S., expanding by an average 14% a year since 1950, as against 8.4% for the runner-up, electric utilities. The pell-mell pace is still accelerating: this year U.S. airlines plan to take delivery of 287 new jet and turbo-prop planes worth almost $1.5 billion, nearly twice as much as they spent on equipment in 1965. With that outlay, the industry will add as much seat-mile capacity as it had altogether in 1950. The airlines are already the nation...
...Javitses have three children: Joy, now 17 and a senior at Dalton School, who after graduating plans to spend this summer with her father in his two-bedroom apartment at 4000 Massachusetts Avenue as an unsalaried "intern" for Rhode Island's Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell; Joshua, 16, a Riverdale Country School junior who will be going off to London for the summer with his mother; and Carla, 10, a precocious fifth-grader at Dalton...