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...when Father Joe Kennedy was Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Son John F., then a student at Harvard, was often in residence at the embassy during vacations, and naturally enough, fell in with the Rt. Hon. David Ormsby-Gore. Young Ormsby-Gore was not only heir to the title of his father. Lord Harlech, a Shropshire landowner and onetime chairman of the Mid land Bank, but also nephew of Tory Kingmaker Lord Salisbury. "We were just young people going around together." says Ormsby-Gore. Then Jack Kennedy's kid sister Kathleen ("Kick") up and married...
...Nikita Khrushchev headed for Vienna, TIME'S Moscow Bureau Chief Ed Stevens reported that the Kremlin, where changes in the Soviet top command often happen imperceptibly, now had a new heir apparent. His name: Dmitry Polyansky, 43, a man the world has scarcely heard...
...generally ticketed as the anointed heir has long been ponderous Party Secretary Frol Kozlov, 52. Khrushchev himself told Averell Harriman in June 1959 that he had picked Kozlov as his successor. As recently as last April, Kozlov stood beside Khrushchev at the triumphant reception for Spaceman Gagarin. Since then, Kozlov has dropped out of sight. Last week diplomats heard that he had suffered a heart attack (Kozlov is known to have high blood pressure). Other reports were that Kozlov had merely incurred Khrushchev's displeasure on matters of policy. Whatever the reason, Kozlov is now considered permanently shelved...
...speech, delivered it well. Afterward, reporters and cameramen whom he had known in his single days hesitantly gathered round. He broke royal family precedent to chat with them, and Britain saw Tony in a new, kinder light. Last week's news that Margaret soon would produce an heir was the clincher. Cooed Daily Mail Columnist Eve Perrick: "Whatever the future of Armstrong-Jones as a public figure, of one thing he can be justly proud. As a husband, he is a definite...
...Texas victory was the payoff on a cool gamble in which the odds at first seemed to favor the tough and elegant Kirby, heir of one of the founders of the F. W. Woolworth Co. Last year Kirby maneuvered the Murchison brothers out of control of Investors Diversified Services, the nation's largest (assets: $3 billion) complex of mutual funds, and returned control to Alleghany. Encouraged by their wily father, Oilman Clint Murchison Sr., 66, the young Murchisons replied by opening a fight for mastery of Kirby's Alleghany itself...