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...Tune. Linner dispatched his aide, Robert K. A. Gardiner, a Ghanaian by nationality, on a special mission to Stanleyville, where Antoine Gizenga holds sway over Eastern province and claims to be the only true heir of the late Patrice Lumumba. Gardiner persuaded Gizenga that it was safe to send a delegation to Leopoldville for the reopening of Parliament. In Katanga, the copper-rich secessionist province that stubbornly refused to share its wealth with the rest of the Congo, Linner's other U.N. emissary, Francis Nwokedi of Nigeria, was hard at work on the Deputies of stubborn "President" Moise Tshombe...
Married. Henry Robin Ian Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, 21, Harvard senior and heir of the tax-pinched 13th Duke of Bedford; and Henrietta Tiarks, 21, Britain's Debutante of the Year in 1957, who has since enjoyed well-publicized if fleeting flings with the present Aga Khan, the modeling profession and Briarcliff College (N.Y.); in London...
...true; a businessman, politician, jet pilot, folklorist, explorer, photographer and athlete, he is as modern as tomorrow. Yet at the same time, there is in both the individualist Goldwater message and the self-reliant Goldwater manner an echo of the Old West. Appropriately, the man himself is heir to the spirit of a pioneering family in a state barely one generation removed from the frontier...
Teaching and practicing in Zurich, young Dr. Jung was fired by Freud's descriptions of psychoanalysis. In 1907 he made a pilgrimage to Vienna and was confirmed in the Freudian faith. In the tall Teuton, Freud saw his heir apparent...
...Baltimore & Ohio and Missouri Pacific railroads, Alleghany controls Minneapolis' Investors Diversified Services, a $3.4 billion investment giant that includes the world's largest mutual fund. In the biggest and bitterest proxy fight in U.S. history, the Murchisons snatched Alleghany out of the hands of Woolworth Heir Allan P. Kirby, 68, a Wall Street titan with a fortune far bigger than theirs. More impressive yet, they won by rallying more Wall Street support than Kirby himself. "All of us here in Texas were pulling for them," says Dallas Insurance Millionaire Jimmy Collins. "We like big deals in Texas...