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...Paramount Ruler, who is 61, has given his own state of Negri Sembilan more than 24 years of enlightened and progressive rule. He has worked diligently for compulsory education, and he is such a stickler for the Queen's English that he used to return his children's letters with red-ink corrections and careful explanations of their errors. He has been married 27 years to his present third wife and has 21 grandchildren...
...project. Witnesses testified that two top members of the Republican-run Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission had teamed up with Manu-Mine Research & Development Co. (initial capitalization: $4,300) in a plan to defraud the commission of turnpike construction funds. With then-Turnpike Commission Chairman Thomas J. Evans' nephew, Charles Stickler, as president, Manu-Mine had cozily acted as the commission's consultant, contractor (without competitive bidding) and official inspector of its own work, received an "exorbitant" $7,000,000 (of the total $19.5 million in contracts) for drilling useless holes to fill abandoned coal mines with sand and gravel...
Last week, after 42 days' trial, the boodlers got billed. Boss Boodler Evans, 73, and his fellow commissioner, former G.O.P. State Chairman James Torrance, were found guilty of misconduct in office and conspiracy (probable prison sentence: two years). Manu-Mine President Stickler and his No. 2 man face five-year prison terms, $5,000 fines...
Today the McDonalds live in a seven-room, three-bath fieldstone house in Mt. Lebanon, eight miles south of the Golden Triangle. They live unpretentiously, do little formal entertaining. But informal callers, mostly union men, are constant. At his office, McDonald exercises a prodigious memory, is a stickler for detail. His office furniture includes a dial-studded electric massage chair into which he sinks to be vibrated when he gets fatigued. His staff boasts that he "can work 35 men to exhaustion, but he irritates union wives by insisting that aides stay at home Sundays to be on call...
...Clarence House instead of the darling of Buckingham Palace, Margaret has considerably more freedom than she once did. But at Clarence House, by her own design, Margaret's life is almost as strictly circumscribed by protocol as it was at the palace. Like Peter Townsend, she is a stickler for perfection, and whatever she does, she wants to do well, even to being a Princess. When Princess Margaret goes to a nightclub, it is never on an informal twosome with a single escort. The party is carefully planned in advance to include half a dozen matched couples...