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...been impressed. Johnson noted in Reno, "by the determination of the delegates to make up their own minds. They're resentful of the idea that they're sewed up." Commented South Dakota's big-voiced Governor Ralph Herseth after a whirlwind Johnson visit: "He made no attempt to pressure us or sweep anyone off his feet. It should improve his position with our delegates...
...waiting plane below. In all, Luckett made five landings on the upper slope. "You just don't make trips like that for money," he said later. "It was hairy." By week's end two high-altitude (30,000 ft.), turbine-powered Air Force choppers arrived from Reno, Nev., but by that time, seasonal turbulence and storm clouds began to form. As the weather closed in, a ten-man rescue party reached the remaining six members of the stranded company, and they all began the painful descent to the 10,200-ft. base, where the Air Force had dropped...
Married. Don Blasingame, 28, speedy, pesky-hitting San Francisco Giants second baseman; and Sara Ann Cooper, 21, daughter of Walker Cooper, longtime National League catcher, now a coach for the Kansas City Athletics; in Reno...
...author, who last year in his twelfth nonfiction book (Man of the World: My Life on Five Continents) listed F.D.R. as "the only person in our social group who took me seriously"; by Ann Bernadette Needham, 28, his sixth wife and former secretary; after three years, no children; in Reno...
Nabbed Nabber. In Reno, Patrolman Nolan A. Glahn spotted two suspicious-looking men in the office of the El Rancho Motel, went to investigate, was robbed of $80 and clapped in his own handcuffs...