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Hummel made a year-long survey covering 88% of Oregon's high schools. He found youngsters paying as much as $18 for a student-body card, $30 for other tickets, and $32 for class jewelry. Every dance steps up the bill. One father reported that it cost him $100 to dress his daughter for a prom that cost her date more than $20. The biggest cost: transportation. Though every school district runs buses, every teen-ager seems to want a car. The cost averages $65.28 a year and ranges...
...half-century after Rough Rider Theodore Roosevelt made a year-long safari through Kenya and Uganda, Teddy's grandson Kermit, 44, a vice president of Gulf Oil Corp., set out with two of his sons to retrace some of the route. Kermit Roosevelt will carry the same .405 big-game rifle that his grandfather lugged from Mombasa to Khartoum, but the present-day Roosevelt's safari will last only 25 days, be a much less lavish expedition than Teddy's. Aside from the hunting. Kermit, also a writing man, will take notes and pictures for a contemplated...
...haired Lucille Ball, 48, who had once said of her 19-year-long marriage that she "never expected it to last six weeks," divorced Desi Arnaz, 43, calling the last few years a "nightmare" during which Desi became hysterically enraged at the slightest provocation-when water pipes burst in their Beverly Hills mansion or when he could not find a jacket he wanted to wear. The split: for Lucy, their two children, half of their $20 million Desilu TV interests, the leaky mansion, two station wagons, a cemetery plot at Forest Lawn. For Desi: the other half...
...After a year-long court fight, Texas Oil man W. Howard Lee, 51, fifth husband of ex-Cinestar Hedy (Ecstasy) Lamarr, 45, got a divorce, terminating what was, according to Lee, a most unecstatic six-year marriage. Hedy did not contest Lee's suit or his testimony that she had often belted him, reviled him, squandered his money, and accused him of swiping her jewelry. Day after the divorce, Hedy, gazing raptly at one of her own oil paintings (title: Chinatown), told newsmen that the marriage had gone bad because she had been too much a "mother...
...Howard) Douglas of Illinois, zestfully booming out the long jargon phrases of higher economics. White crew-cut hair bristling, Democrat Douglas last week was declaiming on an emerging issue in 1960 politicking: the state of the U.S. economy after seven years of Republican stewardship. Prompting his performance was his Joint Economic Committee's report on a year-long study of U.S. employment, growth and price levels...