Never one to hold his peace when he can tell it to the papers, Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 54, called a press conference to refute all those horrid things his colleagues were saying about him. He particularly resented a Senate speech by Delaware's Republican John J. Williams, who scorched him for his whoop-de-do European junkets and squandering of federal funds. It was a matter of racial discrimination--because he was a Negro, said the injured Powell, forgetting for the nonce that he once claimed Cherokee-white ancestry. Williams, added Powell, bought Delaware resort property that is "barred to any person not of the Aryan race,'' and was a ''liar'' to boot.
Pat's closest love was supposed to be her horse Geronimo, and Erik spent most of his time with a tiny red Saab. Still they kept bumping into each other on all the Motor Rally routes from Monte Carlo to Africa. In Helsinki, Pat Moss, 28, Britain's top woman driver and sister of Ace Driver Stirling Moss, announced her engagement to king-sized (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.) Swedish Champ Erik Carlsson, 33, twice winner of the Monte Carlo Rally. Though they have yet to fix the date--"very busy driving"--they firmly denied suggestions they might form a racing duo. Said Pat: ''I'm a nervous passenger.''
After nearly two years in New Delhi as U.S. Ambassador, debating with Indian neutralists, Harvard Professor John Kenneth Galbraith, 54, was getting "a little uncomfortable at the implication that those who help you are the threat to your policy." Now, weary from 16-hour days and suffering from an undefined liver complaint, he will return from the New Frontier and go back to Harvard next fall.
The members of Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club chose tasty Film Star Shirley MacLaine, 28, as their Woman of the Year. Accepting a brass pudding pot from Club President David Rockefeller Jr.. Shirley proved to be everybody's dish. "I like it here so much I might move right in,'' said she to hungry applause. "I would like very much to be educated, but it's too late--I'm a millionaire.''
On a trip to Philadelphia, Postmaster General J. Edward Day offered some comments on an earlier Postmaster named Benjamin Franklin. Not a very good postman was Ben, said Day, with more humor than accuracy. Day, in effect, accused Franklin of nepotism (six relatives on the payroll), unfair business practices (plotting to bar the mails to a rival publisher), and, as a final shaft, "after landing this plum he left for England and stayed 18 years." Philadelphia's Poor Richard Club was not amused. "Franklin may have had some human failings," said a spokesman, ''but at least he was able to run the Post Office with out a deficit."
In a ceremony at the Smithsonian Institution, Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., presented his silvery space suit, boots, helmet, and the small American flag he carried on his historic triple orbit to the National Air Museum. He also noted his Friendship 7 capsule, already on display. "This is somewhat of a reunion." said Glenn in wry reference to the capsule's world tour and his own full schedule of public speeches. "We've both got a lot more mileage on us than last year."
Not long ago they were swapping insults about who knew what was best for her. But when you're all wrapped up with the most expensive lady in movie history (fast approaching $40 million), who can afford to hold a grudge? Reunited among the photographers and barren peaks near Almeria, Spain, where Cleopatra is getting some additional scenes, Producer Darryl F. Zanuck, 60, and Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 54, back on the picture, went for an old-fashioned walk to talk things over.
Setting a precedent that could bring pings to politicians everywhere, Michigan's Governor George W. Romney, 55, replaced the 1959 Chrysler limousine that served Predecessor John Swainson. His new car? No, not a Rambler, which is built, of all places, in Kenosha, Wis. The former president of American Motors will tool around in a standard "tuxedo black" Bel Air Chevrolet priced at $1,746 (plus trade-in of an old state police car), the low bid from Chevy beating out Ford, Plymouth and Dodge.
When she died last December at 88, Jennie Warner Hague, widow of Jersey City's roisterous Boss Hague, left an estate now appraised at $5,000,000 as her share of the family fortunes. Jennie left the money to her son Frank Hague Jr., cut off her adopted daughter Ann Margaret Loughran with only $1. "I don't want to shout and rave," said Ann Margaret, who brought suit in a Manhattan court. "I just feel quite coolly that it's unjust."
The Welcome Wagon trundled over to the folks at 400 East Eighth Avenue in Denver and brought them a chocolate pie, a coffee pot, some cottage cheese, and a letter: "Welcome! If you are a new resident, chances are you came here on a job assignment . . . You will quickly find Colorado a good Two-Party state. So, regardless of which party you belong to, take a hand in the political and civic activities of your community. Signed: "Sincerely, Steve McNichols." McNichols is the former Democratic Governor of Colorado, roundly defeated November last by Republican John Love, 46, who now occupies the Governor's Mansion at 400 East Eighth Avenue.
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