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...spearfishing championship (done with held breath alone) was won by California's rangy (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.) Terry Lentz, 22, who landed 15 fish weighing 106 Ibs. One of the finest free divers in the world is Security Analyst Peter Gimbel, 32, husky, Yale-bred scion of the department-store family. As a boy, Gimbel sat on the bottom of his parents' pool with a five-gallon can over his head, gulping air from a garden hose. He grew up to become a crack ocean diver, swam on the first team to reach the Italian liner...
Bishop Laurian Rugambwa, 47, was born a member of the Bahaya tribe in Tanganyika Territory, scion of a long line of chiefs, and he became a Christian, along with his father and mother, at the age of eight. Trained by the Roman Catholic missionary White Fathers, he was ordained a priest in 1943, and served as assistant pastor at the Rubya mission for five years before going to Rome for special studies in canon law at the Gregorian University. In 1951 he was named the first bishop of the new diocese of Rutabo in Tanganyika, became the youngest and most...
...race. But the Republican reign in Maine has been slowly on the wane. And Lucia Cormier is bound to be helped by the fact that the state's Democratic slate is headed by one of Maine's champion vote getters, two-term Congressman Frank Morey Coffin, 40, scion of an old Maine Democratic family (his grandfather, grandmother and mother held political offices in the state), who put off his own ambitions for the Senate to run for the patronage-heavy Governor's seat, now occupied by young (39) Republican John H. Reed...
Married. Jenny Ann Lindstrom, 21, pink-cheeked, blue-eyed daughter of Ingrid Bergman and her first husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom; and Fuller Earle Callaway III, 28, scion of a Georgia textile family; she for the first time, he for the second; on the spur of the moment, before a justice of the peace at Elko...
...years ago. His father's family have long been private bankers in Madrid, and Pete's father himself was an expert on currency engraving for the U.S. Treasury Department. Despite the family's connections in high finance, young Quesada had no dreams of becoming a dollar scion. He flitted from school to school-Wyoming Seminary (Methodist) in Kingston, Pa., the University of Maryland, Georgetown University-played topflight tennis and some football, and did little else. He sold Crackerjack at Griffith Stadium, spent many a summer as a lifeguard in the Tidal Basin Pond near the Washington Monument...