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...Both boats were on the starboard tack (wind over the right side), and Shields was trapped. He could not come about onto the port tack to get to the line without violating Mosbacher's right of way under racing rules. Mosbacher deftly drove Shields well beyond the marking buoy, then suddenly came about and crossed the line a full 20 sec. ahead...
...Lawrence rushed into the basin above the international St. Lawrence Power Dam, and on July 4, Independence Day for Canada's U.S. partner in the project, the newborn lake reached its predicted shore line. Turbines in the power dam turned in test runs, and the U.S. Coast Guard buoy tender Maple voyaged through the new lake, planting a trail of red and black buoys to mark the way for 80 ships waiting to follow-and for the thousands to come after the deep seaway's opening next April...
...design, build and test world's biggest known radar system. It will be first part of Air Force's $721 million missile early-warning system (TIME, Feb. 3) to detect ICBMs in flight several thousand miles away. Work starts soon in G.E.'s Syracuse plant, will buoy company's defense employment...
...already written out his resignation in protest against a series of United Press stories from Washington saying that his reporting on the Indonesian crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS) was inadequate. Allison's Washington friends suspected that Allison's Washington rivals were planting the stories to undercut him. To buoy him up, Secretary of State Dulles cabled Allison a personal compliment on the excellence of his report, ordered that Spokesman White's press-conference remarks be included in his message...
...later was escorted all around the Strategic Air Command's headquarters, including a spelunking expedition through its vast underground communications center. Remarking that by now he was "awfully tired," Mohammed canceled a slated trip to Niagara Falls. At week's end, with "a little extra rest" to buoy him up for the rest of his schedule, the affable monarch returned to Manhattan for a reunion with his daughters, a jaunt up to West Point (where as chief of a state he granted a traditional amnesty to all cadets undergoing punishments), an evening at the Metropolitan Opera...