People: Feb. 16, 1962

With the retirement of the bond issue that originally floated the 23-year-old Blue Water International Bridge between Port Huron, Mich., and Sarnia, Ontario. Michigan's Democratic Governor John B. Swainson, 36, stoically took the only appropriate action. By executive decree, he ended the two-bit toll on the bridge—and with it the $6,115-a-year toll-collector's job held since 1957 by John A. C. Swainson. 57, his father.

Seven years after Reno Hotel Operator Charles Mapes Jr., 41, first bought it for her. Bobo Rockefeller (born Jievute Paulekiute), 45, was finally wearing his engagement ring. Though candid...

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