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How much atomic bomb power does the U.S. have? Too much, believes Major General John B. Medaris, recently retired chief of the Army's Ballistic Missile Agency. Medaris told an A.F.L.-C.I.O. World Affairs Manhattan meeting last week that "a prominent Senator" (who turned out to be Jack Kennedy) estimates that the U.S. already has an atomic stockpile equaling "ten tons of TNT for every man, woman and child on earth." World population: 2.8 billion.
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Off on another political hayride, Louisiana voters elected Guitarist-Composer James H. (You Are My Sunshine) Davis, 59, as their Governor for the next four years. But no sooner were the returns in than rumbles were heard from the direction of outgoing Governor Earl Kemp Long, 64. With some $7,500 in leftover "campaign contributions," Ole Earl has scheduled a statewide TV speech for May 8, two days before Democrat Davis takes office. Said Long: "Ah'll tell the people of things to come—and things not to come." Probable translation: barred by law from succeeding himself this time, Ole Earl expects to run for Governor again in 1964. Meanwhile, with his estranged wife Blanche holed up in Baton Rouge, Long was doing his homework in a New Orleans nightspot, where works his favorite houri, Stripper Blaze Starr.
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While Britain's Princess Margaret and her photographer fiance, Antony Armstrong-Jones, happily made plans for their honeymoon, a picture was going the rounds, making it seem that Tony had already been married to himself, about 70 years ago, and had a child, his spit and image. In fact, it was a trick photograph that Armstrong-Jones, posing as all three members of a proper Victorian family, had sent out as a Christmas card in 1954. All gags aside, irrepressible Margaret and Tony announced last week that they will honeymoon in the Caribbean on the royal yacht Britannia, which will sail a few hours after their wedding in Westminster Abbey on May 6.
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Italy's fever-eyed film queen Gina (Go Naked in the World) Lollobrigida prepared to become Canada's most glamorous immigrant of the year. Reason: she was weary of trying to untangle Italian red tape that prevented her stateless Yugo slavian-born husband, Dr. Milko Skofic, from becoming an Italian citizen. Father and son, 2½-year-old Milko Jr., winged off with Gina from Rome on a trip that will end in Toronto, where the family will buy a home, hopefully apply for Canadian citizenship.
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