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Nostalgia & Splendor. Thus Korea brought MacArthur's military career to a dramatic but unhappy end. Named board chairman of Remington Rand Inc. (now the Sperry Rand Corp.), he lived in lonely splendor high in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers. He made a nostalgic trip back to the Philippines three years ago, attended Arthur's 1961 graduation from Columbia University, otherwise rarely appeared in public...
Born. To William Waldorf, 3rd Viscount Astor, 56, son of Virginia-born Nancy Astor, who in 1963 made the family's Cliveden estate almost as famous for profumation as it was for pro-Munich politics before World War II, and Lady Astor, 33, former model Bronwen Pugh: their second child (his fourth), second daughter; at Cliveden...
...Herbert Hoover, 89, at his Waldorf Towers apartment in Manhattan, rallying after a bleeding right kidney and a respiratory infection caused the second serious setback to his failing health in eight months; Earl Mountbatten, 63, Chief of the British Defense staff, in London's King Edward VIIs Hospital for Officers, after an operation for a hernia; Sportscaster Red Barber, 56, in Emporia, Va.'s Greensville Memorial Hospital, with a mild heart attack; Historian George Kennan, 60, in Princeton Hospital with hepatitis; John Glenn, 42, in Columbus' Grant Hospital with a "mild" concussion after he fell...
That evening the President appeared at a Waldorf-Astoria dinner of the Weizmann Institute, which has created 46 new fellowships in memory of John Kennedy-one for each year of his age. He told the diners that the U.S. has offered to cooperate with Israel in finding a way to convert salt water to fresh water with atomic energy. But Johnson's mind was more on the water problems of Guantanamo Bay, and Aide Jack Valenti repeatedly rushed to the dais with the latest intelligence reports...
Leaving the Waldorf, the President went straight to Air Force One and headed for Washington...