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...sunny December afternoon in 1954, a small group of Air Force officers and agents of the Central Intelligence Agency drove up to the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. offices in Burbank, Calif., to confer with Company President Robert Gross and Engineer Clarence ("Kelly") Johnson...
...Kremlin likes to paint life on a Soviet collective farm as spiritually rich and financially rewarding. The kolkhoz manager is always a cross between Paul Bunyan and Luther Burbank, and his sterling example inspires glorious acts of self-sacrifice from the lowliest peasant. Though foreigners laugh off the myth as nonsense, millions of Russians are asked to swallow it. Hence the shocked incredulity of Russians who picked up the Leningrad literary monthly, Neva. There, in a short story by Fedor Abramov, was a startling indictment of the apathy, discontent and frustrating failure of collective farm life that still exists after...
...20th Century-Fox). Debbie Reynolds, who at 29 is known in show business as the world's oldest teenager, first found fame at 16, when she became a drum majorette at John Burroughs High School in Burbank, Calif. Friends say she doesn't look a day older; enemies say she doesn't act a day older. But in twelve years and 26 films the little lady-she stands 5 ft. 1½ in., weighs 100 Ibs.-has developed, by sheer work and sheer nylons, into an effective hoofer and a get-by ballad-belter. And in recent...
...Humphrey's Crescent City Joy Makers (Riverside). Happy frenzies by a pickup New Orleans "joy maker band" that sounds superbly at home in such traditional numbers as Over in Gloryland and All the Gals Like the Way I Ride. Fine solo work by Trumpeter Humphrey and by Albert Burbank, a veteran Creole musician who uncoils his tart clarinet in nights of eloquent enthusiasm...
...Natt B. Burbank, vice-president of the American Association of School Administrators and Superintendent of Schools in Boulder, Colo., will offer greetings and an AASA progress report at night...