Word: aug
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...surprise came when President Eisenhower named Rear Admiral Arleigh Albert Burke (see box) as Chief of Naval Operations to succeed Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney, 60, who will retire Aug. 16. Burke, 53, will be the second youngest C.N.O. (Forrest Sherman was nine months younger) in U.S. history. He is outranked (until he gets his four stars) by seven full admirals, 21 vice admirals and 64 rear admirals...
...used up. Dr. Scheele was confident that some vaccine, already finished, could be released by the middle of this week, and that the flow would increase rapidly. But all sights had been lowered: the best he could hope for was completion of the foundation's priority program by Aug. 15. All manufacturers, he forecast, would be slowed down by the stricter safety standards. Against this background, congressional proposals for ever-bigger Government bounties to give vaccine free to poor children added up to wind and politics. Equally inappropriate, because premature, was the congressional love feast, exculpating all concerned...
NLRB is due for a change at the top. Chairman Guy Farmer, a middle-of-the-roader in labor-management controversies, wants to return to his Washington law practice, has asked the White House not to reappoint him when his term expires Aug...
Munich will present its famed opera festival (Aug. 12-Sept.11), with performances by the Bavarian State Opera...
Rome, in the ancient Baths of Caracalla (June 30-Aug. 28), and Verona, in the Roman Amphitheater (July 20-Aug...