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...sooner had President Johnson proposed that the Commerce and Labor departments be merged than Connor said he thought this was a fine idea. Thereupon he announced that he would shortly be leaving Government to return to the business world. Last week, after sorting many offers, he found a likely berth. Allied Chemical Corp., a $1.2 billion company that ranks fifth in the chemical industry, named Connor, 52, as its next president. The retiring Secretary will not become chief executive of Allied; that post is still to be held by Chester M. Brown, 59, who has been acting as both chairman...
...word that the white woman's magic might be even better than that of their own women sorcerers. The trickle of patients to Dr. Smith's five-bed dispensary in the provincial capital of Kontum grew to a steady flow and then an overflow. Dr. Smith thereupon began a long struggle to build a hospital outside Kontum, which many Montagnards regarded as a hostile city...
Died. John Joseph Keane, 55, baseball manager, the cool, unassuming tactician, who in 1964, after three futile years as field boss of the St. Louis Cardinals, was about to be fired, thereupon performed a minor miracle by leading his Redbirds to a National League pennant and a World Series victory over the American League's New York Yankees, after which the losers gleefully hired him away at $45,000 per, a triumph of justice that swiftly turned to dust when the disintegrating Yanks finished sixth in 1965, plummeted to last at the start of 1966 and the New York...
...going to put yourself in the book, too?' I replied that I didn't see how I could very well keep myself out of it. 'Good,' she said emphatically." As a friend of Jackie's told Chicago Daily Newsman Peter Lisagor, she thereupon "poured out her soul to Manchester as if he were a psychiatrist." Jackie, who was then thoroughly obsessed with the assassination, spared no details...
...television and told a nationwide audience: "It is regrettable that my administration and party have invited public distrust for lack of moral standards. The main thing is that I, as the responsible person, fully grasp the implications." On the theory that he could best correct the situation, Sato thereupon announced his candidacy for a second term as party president. No one doubted that he would...