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...After a year-long court fight, Texas Oil man W. Howard Lee, 51, fifth husband of ex-Cinestar Hedy (Ecstasy) Lamarr, 45, got a divorce, terminating what was, according to Lee, a most unecstatic six-year marriage. Hedy did not contest Lee's suit or his testimony that she had often belted him, reviled him, squandered his money, and accused him of swiping her jewelry. Day after the divorce, Hedy, gazing raptly at one of her own oil paintings (title: Chinatown), told newsmen that the marriage had gone bad because she had been too much a "mother...
...temporary" capital city of Taipei, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, 73, last week was elected to his third six-year term as President of Nationalist China. Not a single vote had been cast against...
...holy because it marks the confluence of three sacred rivers-the muddy Ganges, the blue Jumna and the invisible Sarasvati, which is supposed to flow underground. Every twelve years, the Hindus celebrate the Kumbh Mela (Urn Festival) at Allahabad, bathing in the waters of the three rivers to cleanse themselves of sin. Every six years there is a slightly smaller Urn Festival. Last week saw the climax of one of the six-year festivals, and perhaps the most unusual Allahabad had ever seen in the way of all-out organization...
...Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson proposed to build upon it "a bold housing program" suitable to the big-spending tastes of his party's enlarged liberal wing. He gave it top priority when the 86th Congress convened in January, threw aside the President's modest request for a six-year, $1.6 billion program, hammered a $2.6 billion plan through the Senate by early February. Then Dwight Eisenhower's budget battle began to take hold, and the companion House bill, delayed until mid-May, was cut to $2.1 billion. Most of the House cuts were kept in Senate-House...
...Coogan if you want to go overseas," maybe to a cushy assignment in Paris. Sergeant First Class William Coogan, at 38 a sharp-looking, 14-year regular with a good record, had the expert and ready assistance of Specialist Fifth Class George B. Huller, at 23 a six-year man with an equally fine record, on duty as a personnel clerk at division headquarters. Theirs was the job of filling in the names when Pentagon orders called for overseas billets by classification, and Huller's initials were all that was needed to make the orders effective. Coogan collected...