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...members of his staff in a brisk trot around the Olympia High School track. In his first ten months in office, Republican Evans, 40, has also foundoccasion to hold a press conference in a swimming pool-leaving reporters wetter than wiser-break trail for a slalom contest, scale Mount Rainier and, when time permits, sail his sloop...
When the rain clouds lift from Mt. Rainier, it is revealed as a major embellishment of the state of Washington. And when the clouds of scandal and discontent lift from the campus that lies under Rainier, it appears as an equal adornment. This fall the University of Washington is relishing clear academic weather, part of a new climate that began in 1958. That was the year when Charles E. Odegaard took charge...
...major roads, screen or remove junkyards from roadsides, and push back billboards so that people can see the scenery. It may even eliminate the ultimate uglification described earlier by Washington's Senator Warren Magnuson. On Route 99, just south of Seattle, said he, the view of distant Mount Rainier is obscured by a Rainier-beer billboard with a painted view of Mount Rainier...
...Stork Club that General Douglas MacArthur was feted after his ticker-tape return from Korea, that Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier first revealed their engagement, and that Ernest Hemingway and Louis Untermeyer resorted to fisticuffs over some forgotten difference of literary opinion. For a quarter of a century, everyone who was not just an everyone dropped in. J. Edgar Hoover, Joan Crawford, Brenda Frazier, Rocky Marciano, Orson Welles, Helen Hayes, George Jean Nathan, Mary Martin, Tommy Manville, James Farley, Tallulah Bankhead, a freshman Congressman named Jack Kennedy-all came to be swept past the velvet rope...
...Rainier could scarcely afford to buy Onassis out, and he shuns expropriation; as unbefitting the genteel nature of his establishment. Nonetheless, at the company's annual meeting last week, a Swiss lawyer known to be close to the palace launched an attack that suggested a Royal Solution. Onassis' control of such a large block of stock, argued the lawyer, is illegal under the company's charter, which limits individual shareholders to 10,000 apiece. Onassis nominally complies with this by holding most of his stock in the names of 48 Panamanian shipping companies, but Rainier...