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...earlier days of air travel, the airlines' best customer was the U.S. businessman to whom flying meant time, and time money. Today, like Idaho Rancher-Financier R. J. Simplot (who is aloft 800 hours each year), businessmen are finding an even better way to save time and make money: they use a growing fleet of private planes of every size and shape. For a description of the boom and what it means to the U.S. light-plane industry, see BUSINESS, Private Planes on the Rise...
...Defense Department. As the U.S. pioneers in rocketry and space research, the armed forces are already deeply and impressively competent in the arts of rocketry and space planning, have close connections with the nation's best scientific brains. Conceivably the Defense Department -through its Advanced Research Projects Agency-could evolve into the overall space agency more rapidly than any new agency. Most scientists agree that defense needs should have first call on space research but vigorously oppose putting any overall program into Pentagon hands. Principal reason: the potentialities of the development of space range far beyond military considerations, should...
Died. Jan Muller, 35, German-born painter who came to the U.S. in 1941, rebelled against the "New York School" ("Abstract art is too esoteric"), was one of the best semi-traditionalists; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Tycoon. His talents were great. In a time when a Briton's fate was largely fixed by his birth and when regulations governed life down to the smallest detail (e.g., the fine for "toying with a maid." fourpence; for breaking a glass, twelve-pence), young Wolsey's best chance to advance in the world lay in the church. He went as a scholar to Oxford, excelled his fellows by becoming a bachelor of arts at 15 (he was known as the Boy Bachelor). He was ordained a priest before he was 30. A tireless writer and an administrator...
...Cambridge lecturer in Far Eastern history named Victor Purcell (possibly, the publishers heavily hint, he had some distinguished anti-Eliot collaborators, including Robert Graves and C. Day Lewis). In Britain The Sweeniad-titled for Apeneck Sweeney, Eliot's loathed modern subman-has already provoked tempests in all the best literary teapots. "Bravo!" cried Graham Greene. "A delight," said Bertrand Russell (who was once more or less described by Poet Eliot as an "irresponsible foetus...