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Died. William Henry Beveridge, 84, first and last (he left no heir) Baron Beveridge of Tuggal, who in 1942 published his "Social Insurance and Allied Services" report, which called for unemployment, health, marriage, maternity, widowhood, old age and death benefits for every British citizen, and became the framework for Britain's present-day "womb to tomb" coverage; in London...
...related to some of the great Dutch pioneer families-the Roosevelts and the Van Cortlandts; Alexander Hamilton and John Jay were close family friends. Raised as an Episcopalian, pretty Betty Bayley was a gay, open girl who loved dances and parties. At 19, she married William Magee Seton. heir to a New York mercantile fortune, in the biggest social event of the 1794 season. The Rt. Rev. Samuel Provoost, first Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York, officiated at the ceremony...
...heir-apparent is still avuncular Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, architect of the West German economic boom, and the most popular choice among West German voters. One Cabinet minister guesses that Erhard also commands the loyalty of 60% of C.D.U. politicians. But Erhard still has one formidable enemy-der Alte himself who has conducted a petulant feud with paunchy "Uncle Ludwig." Adenauer's influence is still great, and last week the field was still wide open with half a dozen other candidates, led by Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder, to be considered. Whom would der Alte prefer...
Obviously built for a wide-awake wardrobe was perpetual Cinema Starlet Jill St. John, 22, back to the grind in a Paramount peepshow called Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? Whoever it was, it didn't seem to be her husband, hot rodding Five-and-Dime Heir Lance Reventlow, 27. All Jill wants from Lance these days is separate maintenance...
...Army Vice Chief of Staff, Minister of Trade and Industry, and Chairman of the Burma Oil Co., Aung Gyi was Ne Win's No. 2 man and heir apparent. The son of a well-to-do Chinese textile merchant and a Burmese woman, he proved himself a canny diplomat both in the 1960 negotiations that fixed Burma's borders with Red China and in last month's talks with Japan that produced $170 million in additional World War II reparations and loans. Despite his insistence that "I have no training in economics," he built a modest army...