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...President Kennedy sunned on board the Honey Fitz off Hyannis Port on a recent Sunday, a Piper Cub droned back and forth overhead, towing a ban ner with a pointed message: JFK PLEASE HELP NORTHEAST AIRLINES. A few days later, Teddy Kennedy made his maiden speech in the Senate - and demanded that the Civil Aeronautics Board reverse its "tentative" decision against renewal of Boston-based North east's certificate to fly the New York-Miami route. Fearful of losing their jobs, Northeast's 2,200 employees organized a lobby, and some Northeast pilots even implored airborne passengers...
Everywhere there are signs of Nikita's three grandsons, the children of his daughter Rada and Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei. Toys and bikes are parked near flower beds. Aleksei Jr., a towheaded eight-year-old with hornrimmed glasses, zooms around in a green, gasoline-powered Cheetah Cub Car, an American-made miniature sports model that Dad picked up on a visit to the U.S. The seat of the Cheetah is covered with real leopard skin...
Schooled at Loomis and Columbia, and twice married, young Punch did two stretches with the Marines in two wars. He served as a cub reporter on the Milwaukee Journal and put in tours at three Times bureaus abroad for short, unnoticeable hitches. He came home to handle chores for his father in the publisher's office-in-plant efficiency and civil defense-then took on the job of assistant treasurer. At 37 he leapfrogged to president and publisher...
Died. Orvil Eugene Dryfoos, 50, president since 1957 and publisher since 1961 of the New York Times, a onetime stockbroker who married then Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger's eldest daughter in 1941,*six months later joined the paper as a cub reporter, then moved into management, where he became a firm but authority-delegating executive, developing the Times's Western edition last year, then acting as background negotiator and front-line administrator of the paper's skeleton 900-man staff (normally 5.000) during the 114-day New York newspaper strike, a tedious period that broke...
...presidential honor guard in Washington, then joined his parents in their home at Honolulu's Hickam Air Force Base. Attending the University of Hawaii, he met a pert drum majorette named Trudy Olson. Among Trudy's attractions: she owned a third interest in a Piper Cub and taught flying. They were married in 1947; and today they fly in their own Beechcraft Bonanza (Cooper is the only plane owner among the astronauts). Their daughters. Cam, 14, and Jan, 13, sometimes take a supervised turn at the controls...