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...Committee on Space and Astronautics to Louisiana Democrat Overton Brooks. Reason: the move took Brooks, whose abilities are lightly regarded, out of the line of succession to Georgia's aging (75) Carl Vinson as chairman of the powerful House Armed Services Committee. Succeeding Brooks as Vinson's heir apparent: Texas' able Paul Kilday...
...Mary Clarke chose to make Smith her principal heir and how she was able to amass $200,000 are questions as puzzling to acquaintances in Whitinsville, Mass. (pop. 8,000), where she was born, and Kingston, R.I., where she died, as they are to Smith fund raisers. The daughter of a Whitinsville doctor, she attended Smith in 1879-80 as a sophomore (she had studied previously at Wellesley), then dropped out. Smith's records show that she made "very high" marks in history and natural history, did satisfactorily in her other subjects. But for some reason she left school...
...case. Alagarsami, the merchant, is not an independent man but an obligated member of a tradition-bound family. Eight years before, he was uninterested in the fruit of his night out with a servant girl; since then his wife has died childless, and Alagarsami must get himself an heir or see his birthright handed to a relative. In his own mind Alagarsami is battling for Mother India herself...
Some reflected the temper of the times ?a shock-haired Texan receiving a Broadway ticker-tape welcome for winning a piano competition in Moscow, a limber Australian methodically breaking records for the mile. Still other scenes were charmingly sentimental ? the heir to an ancient throne promising himself in marriage to a commoner he first met on a tennis court, the new, young head of a populous religious sect resuming his daily classes at Harvard...
...surgical progress were the slaves Anarcha. Betsy and Lucy, on whom the flamboyant South Carolinian James Marion Sims (1813-83) operated repeatedly to perfect a method of closing openings (the result of childbirth injury) between the bladder and vagina-then one of the most distressing complaints that woman was heir to. Dr. Sims is honored with a statue in Manhattan's Central Park, but the slaves are not even named in Dr. Speert's index...