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Raised in Raleigh, Royster went to prep school in Bell Buckle, Tenn., then to the University of North Carolina, where he reported for the Daily Tar Heel and made Phi Beta Kappa. "He was as busy as the bumblebee he resembled," a friend recalls. A few months after he joined the Journal, he went to Washington, where he covered the Treasury, Capitol Hill, the White House. As a sign of his new national outlook, he and his wife Frances did not name their two daughters for states; they are called Bonnie and Eleanor...
...museum, designed by William Pereira, is the largest built since Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery was completed in 1941, and just getting it into place requires a miracle of engineering. It is situated on the squishy soil of the La Brea Tar Pits, where saber-toothed tigers and Jack Benny's jokes once prowled. In fact, getting the O.K. to excavate required inspection by a team of archaeologists. They found old bones, but fortunately these were plain chicken. "If they had been dinosaur," says Museum Director Richard Brown, "we'd have taken four years longer...
Instead, only 6½ years after fundraising began, the $12 million museum floats on the tar like a battleship on a 600-ft. by 250-ft. concrete raft. Scraps of canvas make the ship sail. A fortnight ago, the museum's chief art donor, California Entrepreneur Norton Simon, acquired Rembrandt's Titus (TIME, March 26) for a staggering $2,234,400. Eventually it will go to the new museum-the brightest star in a firmament of fine art valued at some $35 million...
...public, there was already talk that it was obsolescent. Actually, it is more than talk; the building was constructed with $200,000 worth of extra foundations for new wings. According to Brown, it will not be long before the remainder of those dinosaur bones in the La Brea Tar Pits are covered with a newer, more elegant layer of civilization...
Congress should move to implement the conclusions reached in the 1964 Surgeon General's Report, the Senator believes. But, "we don't want a scare approach," she added. Instead, she has proposed a bill that would require cigarettes packages to carry "hazardous to health" warnings and give tar and nicotine contents. The bill would also force every cigarette advertisement to contain a "hazardous to health" warning...