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Married. Lamar Hunt, 31, prime founder of the four-year-old American Football League, owner of its Kansas City Chiefs, son of Oil Billionaire H. L. Hunt, one of the nation's wealthiest men; and Norma Lynn Knobel, 25, high school history teacher; he for the second time; in Richardson, Texas...
...structural feature of the U.S. economy. Not even large Government retraining programs to teach new skills will dent the problem, they insist, because nearly half of the jobless are so inadequately schooled that they lack the basic education necessary to build a retraining program around. The world's wealthiest nation has found no way to cope with the fact that some of its citizens have no useful place in today's highly technical industrial society...
Died. Irenee du Pont, 86, one of the world's wealthiest men (estimated empire: $400 million), longtime president and vice chairman (1919-40) of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., world's largest chemicals company, a great-grandson of the founder, who with his late brothers, Pierre S. and Lammot, presided over the company's expansion during and after World War I from munitions manufacturing into paints, plastics, rayon and cellophane, plus a 23% stock interest in General Motors, worth some $3 billion when federal trustbusters finally forced divestiture last year; after a long illness; in Wilmington...
Every Thursday at precisely 4 p.m., the leaders of Argentina's wealthiest, most influential-and most clannish-dynasty sit down to weigh their business affairs. The six brothers of the Braun-Menendez family, ranging in age from 55 to 68, meet in a paneled Buenos Aires board room under a portrait of their late father Mauricio. Around the table each in turn stands up to discuss the fortunes and policies of Sociedad Anonima Importadora y Exportadora de la Patagonia. Something like a Hudson's Bay Co. of the Southern Hemisphere, "La Anonima" controls most of the commerce...
...fact that among South African whites who oppose Verwoerd's apartheid, perhaps the most zealous are Jews. The bulk of South Africa's 116,000 Jews tacitly condone apartheid, the Jewish Board of Deputies has always been careful not to attack it, and some of the wealthiest Jews contribute to Verwoerd's National Party. But to thousands of others, especially the younger, university-educated group, apartheid smells too much like Nazism. In the 1961 general election, Jews voted massively against the National Party, and the lone anti-apartheid crusader in the 160-member Assembly today...