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 about her third husband-to-be ("I'll tell you what he's like: he's a man, and that's a rare thing to find these days"), the coal miner's daughter, whose 1954 divorce from Winthrop Rockefeller brought her a $6,400,000 settlement, was coy about her wedding date. "I hope," she cooed, "we don't take as long to get married as we did to decide to do it."
After 30 years of displeasure at the doings of latter-day Democratic Presidents. Columnist David Lawrence, a self-proclaimed Wilsonian Democrat, warmed slightly toward John F. Kennedy. Reason for the thaw: at Lawrence's suggestion. Red Cross President Alfred Gruenther retrieved from a Red Cross attic a chrome-plated Hammond portable typewriter on which Self-Taught Typist Wilson personally pecked out many of his most important presidential memos and messages, including the original draft of his famed "Fourteen Points" for ending World War I. No typist himself, J.F.K. gracefully accepted the machine for the growing White House display of memorabilia, invited Lawrence to the ceremony.
In his first swing into the Western Hemisphere since he became Premier of the Congo, Cyrille Adoula, 38, delighted a White House luncheon party by toasting the U.S. for "having scored a bull's eye" with its Congo policy, scored a bull's eye himself by his tactful management of a potentially explosive meeting with Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, who came away proclaiming his "pleasure" over the encounter. Similarly impressed by the touring chief of government: New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, who presented the Catholic-educated Adoula with a pair of cuff links bearing the Cardinal's coat of arms.