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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1963)
We Met Such Interesting People in 1863 We strongly disapproved of some; others inspired us; we cried with some and laughed with others but they MADAME NHU "If there were an attack on the palace, the last one to go down shoot ing would be Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, and when she did both guns would be blazing." A British diplo mat said that shortly before the South Vietnam army did attack the presidential palace in Saigon and kill Madame Nhu's brother-in-law (the president) and her husband (reportedly the power behind the throne). Madame Nhu, however, was in a Hollywood hotel at the time, resting from a world-spanning monologue during which she shocked many by referring to Buddhist im molation as "barbecuing" and by calling American officers in Vietnam "little soldiers of fortune." Was she the "Dragon Lady" or Joan of Arc? Or just a woman who talked too much? In the waning weeks of '63, she was just a widow, but experts predict she will emerge from mourning "with guns blazing." YOGI BERKA Interesting people are net al ways the winners. The New York Yankees perennially win, yet drew only 100,000 more fans in '63 than k.' .- hfij r- ( never, never bored us the hapless New York Nets. Only one "character" entertained the payees: Yogi Bern, he of prehis toric physique and ridiculous rhet oric ("Nobody goes to that restau rant any more. If s too crowded.") Maybe that's why the Yankees pushed dour Ralph Houk upstairs, uuned colorful Yogi as manager of the gray-pinstriped Yankees. Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle wired their pal: "We would like our unconditional release to be- professional golfers." LIZ TAYLOR AND RICHARD BURTON "Where's my husband?" cried Elizabeth Taylor in a melee at Mont real airport. Actually, Eddie Fisher was 1,000 miles away in Nevada (often with actress Renata Boeck). What Liz meant was where is trav eling companion Richard Burton, whom she was accompanying to Mexico to make a movie. The confu sion was international and year long. Twice headlines announced the couple would seek divorces from their legal spouses : twice they huffily denied it In Mexico, would Burton further confuse matters by discov ering the charms of costar Sue ("Lolita") Lyon? Apparently his mind was elsewhere. "The other night," he told a reporter, "I totaled 21 (glasses of tequila) before I stopped counting. It was at the beach, and Elizabeth and the others were covered with bites the next morning. I had none. I think I have discovered something." ROGER STAUBACH They call Navy's star quarter back "Jolly Roger" Staubach, but "jolly" doesn't describe his per sonality. He is a serious, modest Middie until Saturday afternoons, when he becomes a daring, danc ing pass master. Roger wanted to be a priest; then be wanted to go to Notre Dame. The Navy was vir tually third choice, and its curric ulum is so tough for him that he has no time for "jolly" undergrad uate high jinks. Besides, the junior classman gets up long before the early-rising Navy so he can at tend 6 La. Mass. Says Roger: "There's lots to be thankful for." The Navy says, "Amen." GEN. CHARLES DeGAULLE To most of the Western world he is a cartoonist's delight who goes around upsetting applecarts. To most Frenchmen he is Le Grand ' Charles, the soldier who took power in 1958 when the country, a "me too" nation in the shadow of the United States and Britain, was verging on civil war. Gen. Charles I Jl By THE EDITORS DeGauUe changed all that and never more noticeably than in these past months. He barred Britain from the Common Market; he dog gedly went ahead with atomic test ing; he scotched plans for a NATO nuclear force. Closer to borne, he played South Vietnam against the United States and set out to take over our leadership in European military defense. Why? Some say he is a man who holds a grudge. During World War II, the U.S. initially refused to recognize his Free French government; he felt personally insulted by both Church ill and Roosevelt. There may be some smaHness in this great, tower ing man, but those who believe in him say bis motivations are solely those of a patriot. Only one person, however, has absolutely no doubts about what DeGauUe is up to that is DeGauUe himself. "Nobody else can become the master of our destiny," he says. "We are the best judges of what we ought to do." Da MARIA MAYER "The Beauty in Gottingen" was how they referred to her during undergraduate days at that Ger man university. Nowadays she is Dr. Maria Goeppert Mayer, and when she attends faculty parties at the University of California at La Jolla, observers note that "men still collect around her." What makes her an especially interest ing woman, however, is that she won this year's Nobel Prize in physics (with J. Hans D. Jensen of the University of Heidelberg for their joint study on the construc tion of the atomic nucleus). A 57-year-old mother of two, she is the first woman to win the physics prize since Madame Curie in 1903. Her comment when told the King of Sweden would award her the prize, worth about $12,000: "Good. I've always wanted to meet a king." N6 1 ' - MR. AND MRS. ANDREW FISCHER Dr. James N. Berbos kept picking, up several fetal heartbeats in his patient, Mrs. Andrew Fischer of Aberdeen S. D. "I suspected that she might have triplets," he recalls. So he ordered X-rays and discovered that he was treating a 54,000,000-to-1 patient. Mrs. Fischer was carry ing quintuplets. Three days later, on Sept. 14, Dr. Berbos delivered four girls and a son to Mrs. Fischer, already the mother of five, within 72 minutes. "Nerve-wracking," said the doctor. Mr. Fischer, a shipping clerk, and his wife seemed to agree but mostly because of the dizzy ing surge of well-wishers, from President Kennedy to promoters wanting the quints to sell their products. Before the family could even name the fivesome, they had a popular label They were "The Million-Dollar Babies," a conservative estimate on how much they will make as America's new darlings. ANDRIAN AND VALENTIN A The bride wore white: ankle length gown, double veil, gloves, roses. The groom was so calm he helped his tearful bride slip a plain gold band on his finger. The couple: Soviet cosmonette Valen tina Tereshkova, 26, and cosmo naut Andrian Nikolayev, 34. Val entin had previously dodged reporters' questions about her ru mored romance by saying, "Every woman hopes to marry someday." When that day came, it was a spec tacular one covered by Moscow television. Acting as big daddy (fathers of the couple were killed in the war) was Nikita Khrush chev, who proposed 20 or 21 toasts (reporters lost count but noted that Nikita only sips these days) and quipped: "May the marriage be a long one. May yon have radar to avoid all the obstacles of life." SANDY KOUFAX Interesting people are beset peo ple. Sandy Koufax, lefty star of the Los Angeles Dodgers, wanted to be a basketball player; baseball scouts grabbed him because he could throw so hard (without any idea where the ball would go). When Sandy mastered control pitching, he in curred a finger injury, and doctors feared they might have to amputate. But in 1963 Sandy came back with strike-out records and a no-hit game. In September, the Dodgers St. Louis series was the pennant deciding one but, alas, Sandy's turn on the mound fell on the Jew ish New Year. Solomonlike manager Walt Alston pitched Sandy out of turn, and the fireballer sent the Dodgers toward a World Series sweep over the Yankees with a stun ning shutout Headlined a Los An geles newspaper: "HAPPY NEW YEAR, SANDY!" At last it was. SIR ALEC DOUGLAS-HOME He started the year as Lord Home, British foreign secretary, and ended it as Sir Alec Douglas Home, prime minister, having giv en up his noble title for a seat in the House of Commons. By any name, he seemed a tepid cup of English tea to Americans, who $kfl Family wondered mostly why he pro nounced his name "Hume." The' story goes that a battling Scottish ancestor (the Home family dates back to the 13th century) tried to rally his warriors with the cry, "For Home! For Home!" The fol lowers misunderstood and ran home. Since then the Homes have preferred mispronunciation to dis honor. Beneath Sir Alec's bland exterior, however, courses- that same fighting blood. Reluctant to take the job at first, Sir Alec, once committed, survived a bitter polit ical struggle against far more am bitious leaders. When word of his victory leaked out from party head quarters, London crowds shouted: "It's Home! It's Home!" this time nobody misunderstood. JESSICA MITFORD Jessica Mitford comes from a no ble English family noted for getting people's hackles up. Her father, for instance, stirred British tempers by sympathizing with Hitler. Jessica's contribution to family tradition is this year's best-selling book, "The American Way of Death," which studies alleged overcommercializa tion in the undertaking industry. (The cost of living, she says, rose 71 percent since World War II while the cost of dying rose 100 percent.) Clergymen largely praised the book for exposing "pagan cus toms and trappings," but under takers mourned that Miss Mitford had castigated them with inaccurate statistics and unfair interpreta tions. Congressman James B. Utt (R.-Calif.) went further. He ac cused Miss Mitford of "Communist front activities" and striking "an other blow at Christian religion." Her reply: "Red herring." LUDWIG ERHARD "Onkle Ludi" looks like a Dutch uncle 220 pounds of rosy-cheeked LmIkl I w Vs. Wbdcly j December 29, 196S Gemiltlichkeit who smokes Brazilian cigars, works with Beethoven music in the background, and drinks cham pagne and beer. But West Germans wondered if an uncle figure like Ludwig Erhard, a fervent anti-Nazi handpicked by American occupation forces to revive his nation's econo- my, would make a firm chancellor. One who doubted it was Konrad Adenauer, who at 88 was reluctantly turning over the post to Erhard. "A rubbery lion," Der Alte used to call hint and Ludi took the abuse good naturedly. Would this "rubbery lion" bend to the ambitions of Charles DeGauUe who wants to in crease France's influence in western Europe at the expense of the U. S.? Erhard lost no time in knocking the "national egotism" typified by Le Grand Charles. It reminded NATO leaders of a previous observation by Herr Erhard: "I am an American invention." POPE PAUL VI Giovanni Cardinal Montini chose the name Paul when he succeeded the Ute Pope John XXIH as su preme pontiff of the Roman Catho lic Church. It was a significant choice. The question had been whether the new pope would carry on John's dream of aperturismo an "opening" of the church to new ideas of the modern world. The name Paul hutted of the new pope's direction it was St. Paul who rec ognized the universality of the teachings of Jesus and carried Christianity beyond the confines of a Palestinian sect. John had dreamed that the Christianity spread by Paul could once more find a type of unity, and Pope Paul VI lost no time in assuring the world that he succeeded to this ideal as well as to the Chair of Peter. He said: "I long to make mine the wish that spontaneously and generously welled up in the hearts of my predecessors, espe cially John XXIII: come, let the barriers that separate us fall!" (Continued on page 6) Family Wrrkly, Dmrnbrr . ISU
