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...natural setting. The views of the Smokies are spectacular, and campers are never far from clear mountain streams. Visitors can go hiking through the hills, horseback riding and fishing. There are also motorcycle and dune-buggy trails, the usual selection of Ping Pong and parlor games. Those who tire of sleeping indoors can take their sleeping bags to the woods...
Born in Akron, Dean was raised with his sister Anne in several Midwestern cities, as their father rose through the executive ranks of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. Later the elder Dean settled in Greenville, Pa., where he became vice president of a company that manufactures playground equipment. At Staunton, young John studied self-hypnotism to improve his concentration and roomed with Barry Goldwater Jr., who now is his neighbor in Alexandria, Va. Dean graduated with a low B average and got by at Colgate with gentlemanly C's before transferring to Ohio's College of Wooster...
...Yorty, on the other hand, had lost much of his following. He had stayed in office for twelve lackluster years largely by entertaining Angelenos, but they had begun to tire of the show. In his last term, he spent one out of every four days outside the city. Most of the time he was overseas, garnering publicity and decorations, and his wanderings had become a joke. Cracked Bradley: "People ask why Yorty doesn't go to Watts. But the mayor has an answer. He says that just as soon as Pan Am flies there...
Died. Harvey S. Firestone Jr., 75, former president and board chairman of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.; of cancer; in Akron. The eldest son of the company's founder, Firestone was named one of the firm's directors in 1919 while still an undergraduate at Princeton. During the next half-century, the quiet, precise businessman oversaw much of the firm's diversification, its expansion into 23 countries, and as chief executive officer (1948-63), watched annual sales double to $ 1.3 billion. An active philanthropist, Firestone served as chairman of the USO for 15 years...
Specifically, he can hardly forget the election irregularities of 1960, when he was narrowly edged out of the presidency by John F. Kennedy. To some people, tire issue was still in doubt days after the election. Kennedy held a lead of only 118,574 votes, and Republicans angrily charged massive vote stealing by Democratic officials in Mayor Richard Daley's Chicago and Lyndon Johnson's Texas-two places that could have changed the whole election. Nixon was urged by some associates to challenge the results, but he finally decided-in the interest of national unity, he said...