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...perhaps not as brilliant as that of the Incas who came later, yet they managed to live and love in ways that they thought both wise and well. They memorialized their folkways in ceramics, shaped like pots and flagons and called huacos. Last week Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, U.S. sachem of scientific sex studies, popped up among the huacos in the famed Rafael Larco Herrera Museum at Hacienda Chiclin, near Trujillo, still Pursuing his researches into the ways of love through the ages...
...architects Douglas Orr and Eero Saarinen and associates have been authorized to prepare working plans for the structure which will be contemporary in design. It will be located on a hilltop of the Pierson-Sage Square to the rear of the present Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, in the vicinity of Sachem and Prospect Streets...
Died. Michael Joseph Kennedy, 52, veteran Tammany wheelhorse; in an airplane crash; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). A onetime Democratic Representative from New York (1938-42), Kennedy became Tammany sachem in 1942, was ousted two years later after bigtime Gambler Frank Costello admitted that he had used money and influence to swing Kennedy's appointment...
...oldtime Tammany Sachem once remarked that he would rather have the New York Times against him than for him, because the Times always leaned over backwards in reporting on its enemies. Barnstorming in Manchester, N. H. last week, Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace had reason to feel the same...
...grand sachem, lord paramount and international president of the American Federation of Musicians, Caesar Petrillo has an imperial disdain for convention, and, when confronted by bacteria, he will stop at nothing. He roars like a wounded lion if a photographer lays a camera down near him; he believes microbes use cam eras as invasion barges to leap...