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...latest chapter in the bizarre saga of the Krupp dynasty, whose fortunes were based on blood and iron, unfolded in Germany's Ruhr last week. It involved a playboy's high-spending habits - and a squabble over a major industrial merger...
Question of Sex. The sperm whale is a saga of the awesome statistic. Dr. Scheffer begins the year in "a quiet month in autumn in the northeastern Pacific," with his calf whale backing into the world tail first-14 feet long, weighing a ton, ready to swim. Nursing for two years on mother's milk, the little leviathan will gain seven pounds a day. Sexual maturity will arrive at the age of nine, but he will not reach full growth until he is 30 to 45. Then he may be as much as 60 feet long and 60 tons...
Throughout the Kennedy saga of success and tragedy, Rose Kennedy, matriarch of the family, has endured with an equanimity that has amazed outsiders and inspired her children. Last week, in the only interview she has given since the latest travail began, she told TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey of her beliefs and expectations...
There was no mention in the memo of Assistant Managing Editor Harrison Salisbury, who now plans to write a book on the Times. It might be argued that Gay Talese's bestselling saga of the Times-The Kingdom and the Power-makes Salisbury's effort unnecessary. After the events of last week, however, at least one new chapter seems in order...
Sophisticated Saga. So Robbins went to the production brass of ABC, and spieled out a scenario. There is this banking family, he winged - Morgan or Roth schild types, with the second generation vying among themselves for command after the death of the patriarch. The saga would unfold in novel form, not with self-contained weekly story segments but chapter by chapter. The Survivors would also be more sophisticated than conventional television - "A story," as Robbins put it, "of today's morals...