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...list of state visitors, past, passing and to come, was a small but significant measure of the new stature of Africa in the world's eyes. Russia's President Leonid Brezhnev had just left; Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito would soon be arriving aboard his state yacht; President Kennedy's personal representative, Averell Harriman, flew in from London; U.S. Special Emissary G. Mennen Williams was slowly working his way up from the heart of Africa...
...Yacht Club elected earlier this week Carter G. Ford '63 of Winthrop House, commodore; Philip H. Tobey '62 of Adams House, secretary-treasurer; Paul M. Lehman '63 of Adams House, rear commodore...
...land developers, some 1,400 acres of lush Long Island exurbia-long owned by the late Marshall Field-became a New York State park. Selling the property for $4,278,000 were his widow, Ruth Pruyn Field, and the Field Foundation. With its polo field, shooting preserve, seaplane and yacht docks, the Caumsett domain was called by Long Island State Park Commission President Robert Moses-"one of the largest and finest remaining privately owned estates on the Island...
...Yachts, Grouse & Newspapers. Marshall Field Jr. was not always that decisive, and the Sun-Times not always that moderate. The paper began its life in 1941 as the Chicago Sun, the creation of Field's father, Marshall Field III. Heir to a department store fortune accumulated by his grandfather, the senior Field was also a fervent New Dealer and devotee of liberal causes. He founded his paper mainly to give battle to McCormick's ultraconservative, Roosevelt-baiting Tribune. The paper was something of a flop. By 1950, after turning the Sun into a tabloid, merging it with...
...provisional" F.L.N. rebel government of Algeria, took off from Spain in a chartered plane, but had to turn back because of mechanical difficulties. Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the United Arab Republic and the canniest professional of the lot, was en route by sea in his official yacht Al Hurriyah (Freedom). Nasser, who claims leadership of Africa because Egypt guards "the northern gate of the continent," suffered mortification when he arrived without the two Egyptian corvettes assigned to escort him. Reportedly, they ran out of fuel and had to be ignominiously towed into a Spanish port...