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Marriage Revealed. Ernest Borgnine, 55, beefy, bearlike Academy Award winner (Marty, 1955) and former TV skipper of McHale's Navy; and Tove Newman, 30, beauty-products businesswoman; he for the fifth time, she for the second; in Niagara Falls...
...McNamara, Whiz Kid, razormind under clicked down hair the Motor City intellectual who had a just for numbers and a remarkable ability to convince other people of things he did not believe himself There was Dean Rush the Georgia boy who became a Rhodes scholar an anticommunist fundamentalist a skipper who saved loyal even after the shop had sunk And who could forget Maxwell Taylor the golden general the general who wrote books." Of Walt M. Rostow the mad bomber from MIT. It was quite a cast. It was quite a show...
...multimillion-dollar fire aboard the aircraft carrier Forrestal at Norfolk. The carrier Ranger was recently laid up in drydock for almost four months because metal parts had been thrown into its delicate gears. The Navy is conducting court-martial proceedings against a white sailor for the sabotage. And the skipper of the ill-fated Constellation, while discussing his racial problems, admitted to newsmen that some of his ordnance-handling equipment had been tampered with; other pieces had simply disappeared over the side...
...youngish (38), G.O.P. moderate who has been notably liberal on racial matters, Holshouser also had some campaign assets of his own, among them a record as a can-do state legislator and an endorsement from the Charlotte Ob- server. But he was outspent 2-to-1 by Democrat Hargrove ("Skipper") Bowles Jr., 52, an ebullient millionaire businessman who lavished $1.3 million on a slick statewide media campaign. Not even Bowies' G.O.P.-scale spending, or the Democrats' 3-to-l edge in voter registrations, could stem the Nixon tide, which made Holshouser North Carolina's first Republican Governor...
...Skipper George Putnam, along with a crew of David Brownlee, Francis Ganong, and Rick White, won the last race of the day by a wide margin. "If only there had been more races, we would have had a chance." Horn said yesterday. He had predicted a clean sweep for the Crimson today...