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...chairman, he became a loyal Eisenhower Administration man in the Senate, leading the fight for Ike's military budget. White-thatched Homer Ferguson, 66, is noted for gentle friendliness, dogged fact-searching (during the Pearl Harbor probe, he grilled General Marshall for a week running) and as a worrier, particularly about things that offend his sense of rectitude, e.g., the congressional pork barrel. Twelve years a Senator, he was defeated last fall by Democrat Patrick McNamara. His legislative experience should stand Ambassador designate Ferguson in good stead for working out pending trade and defense agreements with the Philippines...
...from Physicist Charles Galton Darwin. The grandson of the author of The Origin of Species played the old Malthusian game in The Next Million Years, saw ahead nothing but vast increases of population and ultimate world starvation. In a worrying world, Darwin's horizon scanning seemed like a worrier's luxury...
Despite the confident surface, her friends insist that Ros is a chronic worrier who sometimes gives way to spells of brooding and sudden tears. Her religion (Roman Catholic) bulks large in her life, and she is apt to describe her favorite priests as "living saints." But to religion, as to everything else, she brings a measure of humorous detachment: she once dubbed her flossy Beverly Hills parish church "Our Lady of the Cadillacs." She is a tireless do-gooder and works actively for some 30 charitable and civic activities. Usually she volunteers for the least popular job of all-raising...
...this time, Miss Clapp had a good idea of what was up. Over brook trout and a bottle of wine at the Ritz-Carlton, Weeks began to ask questions. "Do you sleep well?" he wanted to know. Miss Clapp answered that she did, she was not a worrier...
Like most successful coaches, Adolph Rupp is a painstaking worrier. Although he has recently written a book, Championship Basketball (Prentice-Hall; $3) cautioning against overworking players, he works his own hard. He feeds them vitamin pills, keeps weight charts, advocates squeezing a small rubber ball to develop arm and finger muscles. "There are no secrets in the game," he says with a straight face...