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...Escrow. Navy Parachute Rigger 3C Stanley K. Kase was honeymooning in Puerto Rico when he was ordered to join his unit at Floyd Bennett Naval Air Station, Brooklyn. Airman 1C William D. Fox of the 445th Military Airlift Wing, Marietta, Ga., was to be married the next day-and got a three-day pass from his commanding officer. Aviation Mechanic Ira Bennett, of the Navy's Squadron VA831 in New York City, also planned to be married this week. "I was in shock when I heard we were called," he said. "I'm just shaking...
...lieutenant in Korea. A onetime assistant to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (then a Congressman and later Commerce Under Secretary), Trowbridge spent eleven years in the oil industry, mostly in Cuba, El Salvador, the Philippines and Panama. He was president and division manager of Esso Standard Oil Co. of Puerto Rico when the Administration tapped him as Assistant Secretary of Commerce about three years...
Jose Gonzalez--a bit overweight from his golfing vacation in Puerto Rico--was lethal in the third position while left-handed, deft-handed captain Rick Sterne, playing four, bewildered his opponent with his spinning shots...
...Palm Springs, $35 million in property in Thousand Oaks near Los Angeles, 4,000-5,000 acres near Phoenix, more than 7,500 acres in the San Fernando Valley, 1,500 acres in Malibu, scattered properties in Burbank and the rest of Southern California and in Puer to Rico, and interests in the Cleveland Indians baseball team, a race track and a variety of broadcasting properties. These holdings, added to his homes in North Hollywood and Palm Springs, contribute to a net worth approaching $500 million...
Charles Evans Hughes once went to bed thinking he was President of the U.S., and woke up to discover that he was just another citizen. Carl Michael Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox went to Puerto Rico at the end of the 1967 baseball season, apparently certain of winning unanimous selection as the American League's Most Valuable Player. And why not? Outfielder Yastrzemski led the league in batting (.326) and RBls (121); he was tied for the lead in home runs (44), and had personally powered the Red Sox-who finished ninth in 1966-to the American League...