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After leaving Harvard in 1938 with a degree in Chinese language and history and a traveling fellowship, Teddy White made his way to Chungking, Chiang Kai-shek's mountain-girt wartime capital. There White began reporting for TIME, and in 1940 the magazine sent him on a tour of Southeast Asia that eventually took him to Manila and to a man who was then an outcast from power or influence, but not for long...
Democratic Congressman Gerry E Studds, 40, found that fish remained the chief concern of his constituents in Massachusetts' water-girt Twelfth District, which includes Cape Cod. Happily for Studds, the fish were biting, and he was given much of the credit. Known as the "fisherman's Congressman," he sponsored the bill that extends exclusive U. S. fishing rights to 200 miles off the coast Thus Massachusetts seamen no longer have to compete with better-equipped foreign trawlers for the dwindling supply of flounder, cod and haddock. Appropriately, Studds boarded the buoy tender Bittersweet for the annual blessing...
...choose; the Pilgrims at Plymouth partook indiscriminately of foods both familiar and exotic--maize and corn, turkey and chicken-dogs; it mattered little. Having partaken of the fruits of the earth, having experienced the God-given bounties of the soil, they were renewed. And surely they fancied themselves well-girt against the cruel winter that followed. And they blessed Plymouth, and not surprisingly, they called it Plymouth Rock. Later...
...long with politics at Sea Girt, N.J., and the night was long with parties. In the morning, Presidential Candidate Hubert Humphrey was up early, relaxing by wading in the surf. When he spotted a clutch of reporters straggling in his wake, he called out: "Come on, fellows, let's do a little jogging." Only TIME'S Hays Gorey took off his shoes and accepted the challenge. "Let's make it a race," Humphrey said. So Gorey took off in a 20-yd. sprint. He edged out Humphrey...
...plan for shifting its 1,300-employee international headquarters to a 141-acre tract by 1970. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. bought 60 acres in Stamford, Conn., for its chemical division, along with 700 white-collar workers. Uris Buildings Corp., builder of dozens of Manhattan's new glass-girt office towers, announced plans for a huge laboratory-office center in suburban Rockland (N.Y.) County in anticipation of further corporate moves from the city...