Word: weds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MacDonald and Norman Mailer are traced through checkered careers. The one seems to be taken as representative of the '50's in his withdrawal from politics, the other typical of the Kennedy years in his admiration for the charismatic leader and his well-bred wife who together were to wed culture and politics, or their contemporary analogues, Broadway and Route 128, in an apotheosis of disciplined Power. Mailer's existentialism is in fact not too far from the old notion of "expressive politics" which the New Republic implicitly championed for years: commitment for the sake of commitment, action...
Died. Eileen Keliher Jeffers Yager, 61, shy, retiring adopted daughter of William M. Jeffers, onetime president (1937-1946) and prime mover of the Union Pacific Railroad, chief beneficiary of his relatively modest (about $500,000) estate on his death in 1953; three days after she was wed (for the first time) to Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Thomas C. Yager, 47, apparently of drowning after she fell overboard from their chartered 36-ft. honeymoon yacht Carefree, in the channel between Catalina Island and the California coast, while her husband was below decks...
...House. Before anyone could say rubber baby-buggy bumpers, the two sponsored H.R. 2465, modifying a portion of the social security laws. It will be known to one and all, naturally, as the Pickle-Pepper bill. Purpose? Whereas, would winsome widows winning their way with welfare wealth wed wooers on social security themselves, why wish widows and wooers to lose whatever combined welfare wealth weddings would work...
...flying photo-reconnaissance missions. During his remarkably checkered business career, he has been a news commentator in Minneapolis, a Christmas-tree grower in New York, a rancher in Colorado, and a businessman in Havana. He is now married to wife No. 5, Phoenix Socialite Patricia Whitehead, whom he wed...
...letter of William H. Overholt ('68) which appeared in the CRIMSON on Wed., Feb. 10, 1965, in response to a leaflet distributed by the May 2nd committee on Mon., Feb. 8, contains several false assertions. To begin with, the committee's leaflet stated that "... Eisenhower remarks in his memoirs that there was no Southeast Asian expert he knew who was not certain Ho Chi Minh would have won a general national election." Mr. Overholt read this as "none of our experts were certain that Ho Chi Minh would have won." We refer him to page 372 of Mandate for Change...