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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Gary Beban, 21, the thinking man's quarterback who steered the U.C.L.A. Bruins to a Rose Bowl victory in 1966, himself to a Heisman Trophy as the nation's outstanding collegiate football player last year and a reported $200,000 three-year contract with the Washington Redskins; and Kathy Hanson, 21, his college sweetheart; in Alhambra, Calif...
...week's end, Ted and Rose Kennedy taped a five-minute television message of thanks to the nation for its condolences. As Patriarch Joseph Kennedy sat speechless beside them in a wheelchair on the lawn of the Hyannisport compound, his youngest and last surviving son said: "It has been the people themselves, with outstretched hands of sympathy and strength, that have most touched the hearts of the members of our family. It is the ones who could give the least who have given the most...
...time that Westmoreland was purchasing with America's blood and treasure was not on his side. As the war dragged on and the toll of American dead rose to 24,364, support for the war shriveled inside the U.S. The influx of G.I.s Americanized the war, and Westy was too busy to engage in the labyrinthine stratagems needed to galvanize the Vietnamese into an effective defense of their own country. Vo Nguyen Giap, Westmoreland's opponent in Hanoi, was able to match every American move, pouring well-armed North Vietnamese troopers into the caldron below the Demilitarized Zone...
Drysdale: Oh, sure. Of course, my wife Ginger deserves a lot of credit; she was a Rose Bowl princess before I married her, and I don't know how she manages to take such good care of me and Kelly Jean and our house in Hidden Hills and still find time to do her Halo and Lifebuoy commercials...
Monarch Industries, a Middlebury, Ind., manufacturer of mobile homes, met an even stronger reception: from an issue price of $6.50, its shares rose nearly 200% to $19 by week...