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...spring of 1946, the 161 inhabitants of Bikini sailed away. They carried a few pandanus leaves for thatch and their Bibles and Congregational hymnals. Their unhappy migration took them first to nearby Rongerik atoll, then to Kwajalein, and finally to Kili, the inhospitable, rocky, isolated islet where they have scratched out a poverty-stricken existence for the last 21 years...
...ancestors of Sam Houston, Horace Greeley and ten U.S. Presidents.* Even so, last week was a special occasion. For a sentimental reunion on the ould sod, some 50 members of what is probably America's richest family gathered at the old family homestead -a clay-floored, thatch-roofed cottage near Omagh in County Tyrone...
Beneath the snowy thatch and the cool, professorial mien, Paul Henry Nitze glowed as warmly as the bowl of his ever-present pipe. "I shall be getting back into what I used to deal with," he said last week. "Back to the policy issues of the day." Back, but with a difference. Nitze, 60, who was nominated by the President to the post of Deputy Defense Secretary, the Pentagon's No. 2 job, will have one of the top policymaking roles in the Administration...
Producers are now furiously trying to groom new Coburn types, but his seamy-faced, hard-guy specifications are so disproportionate that it is a bit like trying to build a giraffe out of a Tinkertoy. He is 38, though his croppy thatch of sandy hair makes him look like a delinquent graduate student. A lean 6 ft. 2 in., he is a rangy tangle of angular limbs; in action, karate-chopping his way through a thicket of villains, he suggests Ichabod Crane doing the jerk...
...snowy thatch and frosty eyes behind thick rimless glasses made him look like a crusty old literary lion. In fact, David Leo Lawrence, former Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania, was one of the shrewdest, most powerful political bosses of modern times; indeed, until his death last week at 77, he had spent every waking day of his adult life as a professional politician...