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...biographer, who in nine impressively documented books (Bradford of Plymouth, Captain John Smith) retraced the paths of early American history and came to some surprising conclusions: that William Bradford (an ancestor) had aimed the Mayflower at New England, not Virginia, as historians supposed, and that Captain John Smith (no kin) was indeed saved by Pocahontas, a tale long suspected as too tall to be true; of cancer; in Shaftsbury...
...Ford, ranking Republican on the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, whose views favoring an ever stronger U.S. defense posture generally coincide with Barry's, a husky 51-year-old who would campaign aggressively. He is little known nationally, although (who knows?) some voters might mistake him for kith or kin to the Ford family of Michigan...
...program, shaped in no small part by Cohen, calls for closer SEC regulation of the securities markets, perhaps leading to lower brokerage commissions among other changes. It stems largely from the SEC's massive 1963 stock market study (which, coincidentally, was led by Chicago Lawyer Milton Cohen, no kin to the new chairman). Gary made a strong pitch to Lyndon Johnson to pick Cohen, who was already a member of the five-man commission, as the new chairman, and Cohen was not hurt by his close friendship with White House Special Counsel Myer Feldman. Johnson was also under pressure...
Married. Dorian Leigh, 44, queen of U.S. fashion models until she passed the scepter to her younger sister, Suzy Parker; and Iddo Ben-Gurion, sometime playwright, no kin to Israel's former Premier; she for the fifth time, he for the first; in Paris...
...next of kin of Russia's great have often lived in fear and died in horror. Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great slew their sons; Catherine the Great killed her husband. Stalin shot his wife in 1934, later tried perhaps to make amends by corrupting his son Vasily with unearned honors that did him little good; in 1962 truculent Vasily died in exile, probably from alcoholism...