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...then, Nimitz was ready. From a reading of the Japanese "Purple Code," deciphered by Army cryptographers nearly a year before, naval intelligence knew an attack was planned at invasion point "AF." Washington thought that "AF" was Hawaii itself. Nimitz was certain it was Midway. He bolstered the little island with every plane he could spare, ordered nearly every ship in his command to rendezvous just outside what he thought would be the farthest radius of Japanese air patrols. Nimitz urged on his commanders the same policy principle of "calculated risk" that he himself had followed in ordering his ships...
...Dixon Donnelley, 50, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Af fairs, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, succeeding James Greenfield, who has resigned to be come an assistant vice president of Continental Airlines, under Continental Vice President (and ex-White House press secretary) Pierre Salinger...
Surfing Safaris. Even landlocked youths strap their boards on top of their cars, take off on long surfing safaris to find just the right "beach break." Af Matunuck, R.I., one of New England's surfing Shangri-las, almost a third of the cars parked bumper to bumper along the oceanfront road sport out-of-state plates. Said one surf-farer, a Wethersfield, Conn., high school senior who is president of his town's surfing club: "We travel to a different place every weekend. Next week we'll probably go to East Orleans on Cape Cod" -135 miles...
...Negro Cowboys reingrates the story of the West. The book does all the routine things: it follows cattle drives up the Chisholm Trail, discuses the economics of cattle ranching, tracks down desperadoes, and refights the Lincoln Country War. But in this account some af the characters are Negroes. And there the novelty ends. Durham and Jones don't brandish evidence in the face of a complacent public; they are satisfied simply with setting down records and anecdotes proving the prominence of the Negro in the Old West. They emphasize, in fact, that the lives of the Negro cowboys "were like...
...there is a real detente, the pressures that bound free nations together for mutual self-protection no longer seem so great. Says Brazil's Foreign Minister Joao Augusto de Araujo Castro, whose own nation has caused the U.S. any number of headaches: "With the marked relaxation in world af fairs, the rules of the international game are changing-no doubt...