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Stewart Lee Udall, 40, Secretary of the Interior. Arizona's three-term Democratic Representative Udall is a man after Jack Kennedy's own heart: an aggressive, articulate liberal with shrewd political instincts and a talent for political maneuver. A husky six-footer with dark, close-cropped hair. Lawyer Udall comes from one of Arizona's first families. His grandfather, a Mormon missionary, migrated to Arizona by covered wagon, founded the town of St. Johns (pop. 1,310), where Stew Udall was born. Udall's father was a chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, and three...
...fist and left some haunting images in the viewers' minds: the despair of an out-of-work electrician's helper in a dirt-floored hut in Caracas; the satisfaction of a fisherman whose family has a fine new cottage in a Cuban cooperative-and the naively shrewd question of an old crone about how the family's wretched old furniture would look in the new house...
...alligators outnumber the people. In Perez' lifetime Plaquemines has risen, through the discovery of rich oil and sulphur deposits, from Louisiana's poorest back-bayou parish to one of its richest. Although he has never made more than $7,000 a year as a public official, shrewd Leander Perez has become a multimillionaire through his law practice and interests in oil and sulphur lands in his native habitat...
Died. John Elliott Rankin, 78, for 32 consecutive years (1920-52) Congressman from the First District of Mississippi; of a heart attack; in Tupelo, Miss. A shrewd parliamentarian, for all his demagoguery, wiry John Rankin consistently backed veterans' benefits and rural electrification (he co-sponsored the TVA bill with Senator George Norris), was equally steadfast in vituperating Negroes, Jews, labor unions and Communists (real or imagined) in a manner matched only by his fellow Mississippian, Senator Theodore Bilbo...
...purpose, then there must have been a purpose in creating him, Frost maintained, and "I have a shrewd suspicion--just a shrewd suspicion mind you--that there is an ultimate purpose for man." In order to demonstrate this theme in his poetry, Frost read a varied selection...