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Died. Frank Perkins, 79, founder of the world's largest producer of diesel engines; after a long illness; in Peterborough, England. Inventor in 1932 of a fuel-injection device that gave higher diesel horsepower with much less weight, Perkins built his small shop into the giant of its field, with annual sales of $980 million when he retired 30 years later...
...name several who come immediately to mind from the first term: Bob Caro, general assignment reporter for Newsday, concentrated much of his effort and classes in the English department on such trade-related subjects as "The Romans in America"; Ralph Hancox, editor of the Peterborough, Ontario, Examiner, devoted most of his time to French and a social relations course; former New York Herald Tribune Moscow reporter David Miller could be found as often in fine arts and music courses as in those related to the Soviet Union; and one of this year's specialists among the Fellows never set foot...
...odds are that the hair will continue to grow for at least a year. In London, where the trend has had a few years' start, there is hardly a hair's difference between the sexes. The principal of a technical school in Peterborough recently reprimanded a girl for using the men's lavatory-only to discover that...
...listed the avowed candidates: Goldwater, Rockefeller, Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith and Harold Stassen. Two New Hampshiremen are listed, presumably just to see their names in print: Norman Lepage, a Nashua accountant who also ran in the 1962 senatorial primary; and Wayne Green of Peterborough, publisher of a ham radio magazine, who filed for Vice President. Unlisted, but with backers busily courting write-in votes, are Richard Nixon and U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam Henry Cabot Lodge...
...Known as "fair Evelyn" (pronounced Evelyn), Byrd's daughter was a celebrated beauty (see cut). As a young girl she went to live in England where she fell in love with the Earl of Peterborough. Her father forbade the match because the earl was Catholic. A broken-hearted Evelyn returned to Virginia where, she died at the age of 29. The name Evelyn is missing in the sixth generation (circa 1830), but has shown up in every other, impartially divided between male Byrds and lady Byrds...