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...agents who unsentimentally filmed the mourners), Charles ("Lucky") Luciano made his last appearance in his Naples parish church. The late vice lord was encased in a mahogany casket. Following a eulogyless Requiem Mass and a brief bout of fisticuffs between a Luciano pal and a photographer who tried to snap "Charlie Lucky's" last girl friend, a gaudy and gargantuan funeral carriage drawn by eight beplumed horses carried the corpse to temporary rest at the English Cemetery in suburban Poggioreale. Next stop, in compliance with the deported hoodlum's often-expressed wish: the Luciano family mausoleum...
...most faculty members as the worst department on campus. Staffed entirely by 24 priests, it offers no major-for fear nobody will seek it. But Notre Dame is working toward improvement: some 25 young C.S.C. priests are studying for their S.T.D.s at foreign universities, and Hesburgh hopes to snap up 10 or 15 of them. "We've got our Jacques Maritains coming up," he says...
...chairman of Allied Chemical Corp. (1960 sales: $766 million) two years ago, Harvardman Kerby H. Fisk, 58, had spent most of his career in the Prudential Insurance Co., knew little about chemicals. But Allied's board decided that the cool, analytical Fisk was the man to put some snap back into their company which for a decade had been falling behind Dow and Monsanto. Last week Fisk announced plans to swap $350 million in Allied stock to acquire Union Texas Natural Gas Corp., a major oil and gas producer whose output will guarantee Allied a supply of crude...
...elected George T. ("Ted") Baker, 60, as chairman and president, than the tough old pilot sprang a surprise: though continuing as chairman of the company, he resigned as president and chief executive officer in favor of his personable nephew, 42-year-old Robert E. Wieland. One Wieland plan to snap National out of its financial spin (it lost more than $7,250,000 for the year ended June 30): "Make it easier for the passenger to get his ticket and get aboard-and when he deplanes, get his baggage to him quicker...
...season is a gangling, astigmatic, pigeon-toed son of a shoemaker who sleeps on the floor, runs in the street, dances The Twist, and quotes Sociologist David Riesman. On or off the field, Michigan State Junior George Saimes is something of an iconoclast: a B-plus student who shuns "snap" courses, scoffs at fraternities ("They only do what society tells them to"), and rouses himself to fever pitch with a kind of self-hypnosis. "Every time they send me in," says Fullback Saimes, 20, "I tell myself that the next play is going to be the last of my career...