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Thus, after a secluded fortnight in Woodside, Calif., the wan-looking Illinois Republican announced that he would resume his campaign this week for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Paul Douglas, 74. Both had suspended the race after the Sept. 18 murder of Percy's daughter Valerie-a case that remained a mystery last week-and Percy, 47, went out of his way to thank Douglas for acting "generously, graciously and with understanding...
...mother and from Cook Zephyr Wright, of shopping excursions in Manhattan and Washington, of parties and showers, of picking silverware (Old Maryland pattern) and china (Ambassador Limoges). After accompanying her father on a fast one-day swing through Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky late last month, she appeared so wan in public that the White House explained that she was exhausted, not ill. Nonetheless, at a press conference a few days earlier, Luci had proved more than a match for her inquisitors...
...Wan dolls in indigo on gold: refrain...
...Would it bother a boy to go out with a girl who participates in sports?" asks Collot Guerard '69. "Who wants to go out with a flabby girl or a China doll?" On the other hand, many of these female sports enthusiasts avoid wan, sallow-looking Harvard guys. "It's a disgrace," says one sophomore, "when people let themselves go to pot. They look so soggy and unhealthy...
Like the professional golfer, the ro deo cowboy is a nomad of sport - wan dering from town to town, plying his trade in a succession of arenas, paying his own way and earning only what he is good enough to win. In ten years on the bigtime rodeo circuit, driving 70,-000 miles a year, sleeping in trailers and nursing an ulcer, New Mexico's Glen Franklin, 29, has won more "go-rounds" and money ($152,481) than most. Until last week, though, one prize had always eluded him: the silver and gold belt buckle and embossed saddle that...