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...expected, there were suburban wails. Grumbled Westchester County Supervisor Arnold D. Roseman: "It's the rape of Westchester." Arthur T. Roth, chairman of the Franklin National Bank of Long Island and a bitter opponent of the bill, pointedly asked Governor Rockefeller whether "an eleventh-hour emergency plea issued on a bill that favors Chase Manhattan isn't a conflict of interest." Replied Rockefeller: he had sold his 18,000 Chase Manhattan shares last January...
Some 900 miles north and 1,800 miles west of the spot where the celebrated Scopes "Monkey Trial" shocked the world, and a full 35 years later, the state of Washington's supervisor of curriculum guides, John M. Howell, announced: "Now, of course, no one really believes the Darwinian theory ... If Darwinian evolution is true, then the Bible is untrue, and I prefer to hold by the Old Book rather than to accept a worthless theory...
...Supervisor Howell, 65, a onetime Seventh-day Adventist missionary in South America, assured everyone that his own view was not necessarily the state's. No state teacher was under fire for teaching evolution, though "his own mind should tell him that he is doing wrong in so teaching." But the damage had been done. From the size of the uproar, it appeared that the majority of the people of Washington subscribed to Darwin's theory. Most embarrassed of all: Lloyd J. Andrews, state superintendent of public instruction, who had appointed Howell and who is seeking the Republican nomination...
...years ago, Carpenter Alfonso Frisina had little money and less English, but he barged right into the contracting business; this year Frisina will put up Hamilton's first skyscraper, a 22-story, $4,000,000 office building. Toronto-born Harvey Keith, 55, quit his job as a supermarket supervisor in 1950, borrowed $5,000 to go into real estate, guessed right on the horseshoe's land boom, last year grossed $33 million. Japanese-Canadian Arthur Tateishi, 40, who began building phonographs in his basement after work hours, went into business in 1945, expanded to meet the new demand...
Last May in his capacity as Chief Supervisor of Iranian Students Abroad, the Shah's son-in-law Ardashir Zahedi discovered Farah Diba, the pretty young Iranian art student in Paris who last month ascended the Peacock Throne as the Shah's third wife (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week, for this and other services to the crown, tall, handsome Zahedi was appointed Iran's new Ambassador...