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...Washington foreign-car dealership who sued F.D.R. Jr. and the Fiat Motor Co. for $9,000,000 a few years ago. The rest of the committee, both Republicans and Democrats, seemed mighty pleased when Junior vowed: "I will try to be purer than Caesar's wife." There were Rotarian guffaws when Senator Magnuson quipped: "Well, that's asking a little too much...
Died. Cheng-ting T. Wang, 79, dapper Chinese statesman, high-ranking Rotarian, wealthy cotton and coal baron, polished diplomat, Y.M.C.A. official, who returned from Yale with a Phi Beta Kappa key in 1911 to help topple the Manchu dynasts, served the struggling Republic of China as Foreign Minister three times between 1922 and 1931, Prime Minister for a month in 1922, Ambassador to the U.S. in 1937 and 1938, moved to Hong Kong after World War II because China was being "enslaved by Communism"; of cancer; in Hong Kong...
Before he joined the Kennedy Cabinet, Connecticut's Governor Abraham Ribicoff was feared and cheered in his home state for cracking down on speeders. "The lesson of safety cannot be learned too early," he often said, and this year the Rotarians of Rockville, Conn. (pop. 11,000) took him at his word. Ardently backed by School Superintendent Raymond E. Ramsdell, himself a Rotarian, they financed a "pilot project" at Rockville's Northeast School that may be the nation's most feverish excursion into "safety education": driver training for first and second graders using itsy-bitsy pedal cars...
Bach on the Strad. In Columbus, Ind. (pop. 20,658), Miller is a substitute Sunday school teacher at the 350-member North Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He is also a Rotarian, a faithful worker in the local Chamber of Commerce, a Republican. Before Businessman Miller turned to his family enterprises, he first earned a Phi Beta Kappa key in Greek and Latin at Yale, took his master's at Oxford, served as a lieutenant in the Navy during World War II. He also learned to play the violin, manages fair Bach on his Stradivarius...
Personal Life. What Clint Anderson sets out to do, he does with single-minded determination. A first-rate bridge player, he competed in the Grand National Championship matches of 1933 and 1934. A determined Rotarian, he was president of Rotary International in 1932-33. In Washington, he and his wife Henrietta (the Andersons have a married daughter and son, three grandchildren) avoid the canapé circuit, spend their evenings at home, reading from one of the nation's finest libraries on the history of the West...