People: Down to Earth

In Lake Success, N.Y. appeared scholarly Kung Teh-cheng, 28, for a look at U.N. headquarters. He proved to be the great-great-(to the 77th generation )grandson of Confucius, in the U.S. for conversations with U.S. scholars. To the press, Kung said of U.N.: his ancestor would have okayed the general idea.

In San Diego reappeared Ruth Elder, famed speed-&-distance flyer of the '205. Ruth, who has survived one forced landing in mid-Atlantic (in 1927) and five marriages, has now set her hand to writing an aviation column for the San Diego Journal.

In Los Angeles,...

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