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Died. Sir Victor Sassoon, 79, monocled Rothschild of the Orient and owner of one of Britain's finest racing stables; of a heart attack; at Cable Beach, Nassau. Financial chief of a famed British banking clan-and cousin to World War I's angriest young man, Poet Siegfried Sassoon-Sir Victor parlayed a fortune originally built in the opium trade into ownership of much of prewar Shanghai...
Born. To Peter Lawford, 35. known as "Peter Pentagon" to his colleagues in Hollywood's Clan, and Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 37, sister of the President: their fourth child, third daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Another first for Texas and the Clan Murchison-a unique manure! Here, in America's Rhineland, our Angus provide us with tons of the stuff. When it is heaped in the barn, no one's nose is offended. When it is spread through the vineyards, the effluvium floats for miles. Perhaps the Murchisons will be luckier in financial maneuvers than in choosing metaphors...
...lecture tour, and again last March, when he dropped by the White House for a call and a chat. Bobby Kennedy afterward took him on a personally conducted tour of Bull Run. At places and times unknown, he was caught up in the Kennedy clan's family sport. The evidence: interviewed on the BBC last week, he boasted that he was ''one of the few living Britons who understand and enjoy American football'' but conceded that he himself had played "just a couple of games of touch...
...campaign trail last week, Matheson was covering the district in a compact station wagon, and Udall was flying his own Piper Tri-Pacer. But with the whole Udall clan pitching in for Mo, Matheson was beginning to feel the pinch. "I feel like I'm running against a relay team," he said. "No sooner do I get through with one Udall than he hands the baton to a brother...