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...Test Pilot George Smith, 31, left his bachelor apartment in Manhattan Beach, Calif, to buy groceries. It was a Saturday, and he was not supposed to be working, but he stopped at the North American plant to turn in some test-flight reports. Just as Smith headed toward his battered Mercury to go home, Dispatcher Bob Gallahue asked him to flight-test a new F-100A jet fighter so that it could be delivered to the Air Force. Pilot Smith put on his flying gear, got into the cockpit, checked instruments and controls. He noticed that the fore...
...this scrabble of stories, Scenarist Irving Wallace has spelled his tale. Pianist Anthony Warrin, "a warm, perceptive and amusing . . . bachelor in his early 305" (Liberace himself, according to his pressagent, is 35), is at the height of his fame. His sequin-trimmed dinner jacket is faithfully buffed and his glass-topped piano Windexed by a pretty young secretary (Joanne Dru). She loves the man, but he would rather tickle the ivories. In San Francisco, though, the pianist has an experience (Dorothy Malone) that lifts his eyes from the scales. He hurries the young lady off to a museum, where...
Text for Democracy. The victor in the elections was far from silent. Ngo Dinh Diem, a bachelor under a self-imposed oath of celibacy and a Roman Catholic among a predominantly Buddhist people, proclaimed South Viet Nam a republic and himself its first President. To the boom of a naval cannonade and amid a torchlight procession and fireworks, 54-year-old Diem spoke from the steps of Saigon's Independence Palace, flanked by his Cabinet, a battery of generals, two Catholic bishops and two Buddhist prelates. Said the new President: "Democ racy is not a group of texts...
Highlights of his proposals: 1) extend the three-year Bachelor of Divinity course by another full year devoted to "interning" in a parish; 2) set up joint professorships, tying theology into the academic work of the university in such fields as law, history, philosophy, the social sciences; 3) organize a research center to develop "a new theory of missions...
Back in the U.S., Prochnow went to the University of Wisconsin, got his bachelor's degree in commerce and his master's in economics (he won his Ph.D. in finance at Northwestern University at 50), and went to work as a purchasing agent for Chicago's Union Trust Co., which later merged with the First National Bank. As vice president at First National, in charge of foreign banking, Prochnow traveled to nearly every country in the world. "Out of this," he says drily, "has come a certain amount of experience...