People: Mar. 3, 1961

Puerto Rican-born Yvette Diago, 29, the $3,074-a-year congressional secretary who in December married her boss—Harlem Minister Plenipotentiary and Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, 52—stayed on the job, and on the House, but found her pay quadrupled, to $12,974.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs G. Mennen Williams put his best foot forward, and it ended up in his mouth. In Kenya on a four-week African tour, the former Michigan Governor took up the cry "Africa for the Africans," and when told this was the slogan of black African militants, he lamely replied that...

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