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...Allied commander of World War II, President of Columbia University, head of NATO forces, and finally President of the U.S. Few Presidents' sons have handled themselves so well. Says one Army friend: "Most of us have to fight to get ahead, but John can't throw his weight around, since it might reflect on his father...
Piling relentlessly up throughout 1957, such problems threaten a historic change in the political climate in which organized labor lives and breathes. Just four years ago, the weight of political pressure was for softening the Taft-Hartley law in labor's favor. In fact, the notion of a tougher law seemed unthinkable. But in 1957 the U.S. saw how Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa used the nation's mightiest union to grasp for personal wealth and power. And in 1957 the role of unionism in a peacetime economy was called into question as rarely before. As of this...
Joseph de Borse-Day, 49, was a chef at The Bell in the fall of 1955 when he suddenly began losing weight-14 Ibs. in one week, followed by a serious hemorrhage. Surgeons removed a cancer-ridden right lung and several cancerous glands along his spine. De Borse's remaining lung developed bronchopleural fistulas, and the hospital staff rated his chance of recovery at just about zero...
...Marisa Pavan, 25, actress of screen (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit) and TV (Antigone, Dominique), twin sister of Italian-born Cinemactress Pier Angeli, and Jean Pierre Aumont, 47, French cinemactor (The Seventh Sin): a son, their first child, his second; in Santa Monica. Name: Jean Claude. Weight...
Born. To Ralph Kiner, 34, onetime Pittsburgh Pirates' home-run king (lifetime total: 367), who retired in 1955, and Nancy Chaffee Kiner, 28, onetime tennis star: their first daughter, third child; in San Diego. Name: Katherine Chaffee. Weight...