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...years because his children were nearly all adults. He had sold his private plane several months ago, so he hired the first thing he could find: a twin-engined Beechcraft. But when he arrived at Tahoe, the blizzard was so thick that the plane was deflected to Reno. Switching to a car, Sinatra started up into the Sierras. But the storm stopped him again ("You couldn't see the hood of the car," said the driver), and he had to turn back...
With FBI encouragement, Sinatra set up a listening post in a sixth-floor suite in Reno's Mapes Hotel, while radio reports announced where he was. For 16 hours he sat by the telephone, smoking cigarette after cigarette and gulping coffee; his only food was a cup of soup...
Divorced. Marshall Field Jr., 47, proprietor of a Chicago publishing empire (Sun-Times, Daily News, World Book Encyclopedia); by Katherine Woodruff Field, 35, his second wife; after 13 years of marriage, three children; on grounds of mental cruelty; in Reno...
...Stead Air Force Base near Reno, Commandos learn to withstand Communist interrogation techniques by spending six hours in an isolation cell, half an hour in a cramped black box. In basic training at Florida's Eglin Air Force Base, they are given a tattered piece of parachute from which to fashion shelter, then left to make shift in a swampy area for 3½ days. In the Panama Canal Zone their jungle training is enlivened by tarantulas and real but friendly Indians, who pursue them, try to steal their hats as a symbol of having slain them. The Commandos...
...County, a summer place near Rocky's Seal Harbor, Me., home. Happy's own family had been Main Line friends with the Philadelphia Clarks. Their daughter was Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller, tall, reserved former wife of Nelson, mother of his five children. She divorced the Governor in Reno, Nev., in March 1962, after a surprise announcement that the couple was separating after 31 years of marriage...