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Having attained a nearly unprecedented majority in the House of Representatives, the Democratic Party fell heir in January to several additional seats on the House Un-American Activities Committee. And, before HUAC Chairman Edwin E. Willis could spell Plekhanov, Congressman Charles L. Weltner of Atlanta had, without histrionics or controversy, slipped into one of them...
Divorced. Leslie Caron, 33, elfin French film star (The L-Shaped Room, Father Goose); by Peter Hall, 34 director-producer of London's Royal Shakespeare Company, her second husband (her first: Chicago Meat Heir George "Geordie" Hormel II): on uncontested grounds of adultery with Hollywood Actor Warren Beatty, who was ordered to pay court costs: after nine years of marriage, two children; in London...
...Khrushchev, while carefully testing Moscow's changing winds. His real rise began in 1957, when, as a member of the 130-man Communist Central Committee, he shrewdly backed Khrushchev's bid for power, shortly thereafter became one of Nikita's two First Deputy Premiers and heir apparent; his decline started in 1963 when his hard-line anti-Yugoslav attitude brought a swift and angry rebuke from Khrushchev, after which his illness dropped him from the front ranks, and eventually from public view altogether...
Divorced. Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, 43, heir to a $45 million West German coal and steel fortune; by Fiona Campbell-Walter, 32, onetime London fashion model; after eight years of marriage, two children; in Lugano, Switzerland...
...firmest allies, Cambridge-educated scientist-economist Li Kuo-ting and Yen Chen-hsing, a Ph.D. from Iowa State University. The older men they replaced were known to have leaned more toward Chen Cheng. To most observers, Little Chiang's new job was tantamount to his being named heir apparent...