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Implementing his policy of detente with Black Africa, Vorster flew secretly to the Ivory Coast in 1974 to meet with President Felix Houphouet-Boigny and Senegal's visiting President, Leopold Senghor. Later he made a covert plane trip to Liberia for talks with President William Tolbert. Last year he met publicly with Zambia's President Kaunda at Victoria Falls on the Rhodesia-Zambia border in what proved to be an unsuccessful effort to achieve a Rhodesian settlement...
CUNY occupies a special place in the city's heart and history. It has been an upward mobility machine for millions. Alumni include George Goethals, Bernard Baruch, Felix Frankfurter, Sylvia Porter and Abe Beame. The decision to charge for tuition at roughly the same rate as the state university will still allow many children of poor families to attend because aid for the needy is available. But admission will no longer be automatic, even for bright students...
Divorced. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 61, son of the 32nd President of the U.S. and board chairman of Fiat-Roosevelt Motors; and Felicia W. Roosevelt, 49, daughter of the late financier-philanthropist Paul Felix Warburg; after five years of marriage; in Poughkeepsie...
Obscure Congressman. Hiss was well-launched on a brilliant career when scandal struck. He had been a student of Felix Frankfurter at Harvard Law School, secretary to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, executive secretary at the Dumbarton Oaks conference that laid the foundation for the United Nations. He went to Yalta with F.D.R. in 1945, specialized in Far Eastern affairs at State, and was president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace when his world collapsed...
...Felix Twaalfhoven '79 is half Dutch, half Swiss. His parents were educated in the United States, his father at the Harvard Business School. Twaalfhoven's roommate at the Atlantic School in Wales was from New York. "Harvard is just a name to people over there--like Oxford is to people here," he says...