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...that the destroyers were too far away, and the seas too rough, to permit a speedy rescue-explanations the British dismiss. For reasons unknown, the British Defense Ministry decided to keep silent about the secret message. Said a British intelligence source last week: "Those bloody fools threw away an ace card to satisfy their appetite for secrecy. As a result we were denounced as killers...
...could also use a driver who can keep both him and his car on the straight and narrow until he can keep his appointment with a modest destiny. Seems as though his nephew Whit, a skinny boy of 14, but watchfully wise for his age and an ace wheelman, might fill the bill...
...million subscribers via satellite across the country and, with the methodical expansion of cable, anticipates adding an estimated 7 million more by late 1983. It is building a reputation as well as an audience. At the National Cable Programming Conference in Los Angeles last week, MTV won an ACE award, cable's equivalent of an Emmy, beating out competition like the Signature interview series on the now defunct CBS culture cable...
...Reappraising the crisis 20 years after it occurred, six of J.F.K.'s top advisers challenged the conventional wisdom. Writing in TIME (Sept. 27), they concluded that Kennedy had prevailed not because of his nuclear ace in the hole but because Cuba was so near the U.S. and because he had Khrushchev outgunned with conventional forces in the region...
Both Vorenberg and University Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 declined to comment on the changes. But Steinbach, who is monitoring the situation for the ACE: -a Washington-based lobbying organization that includes Harvard called the amendments "very reasonable...