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Transferred to the First Naval District Headquarters in Boston-"the elephant's graveyard," as Navy line officers call it-Alexander will be replaced by Captain Joseph E. Snyder Jr., 43, a veteran of Leyte Gulf and Okinawa's Buckner Bay. No other heads are likely to roll, but many Navymen must be shaking theirs over the fall of Dick Alexander...
...Reminder. Yet those who call this surge "hysterical preservation" cannot deny the worth of saving Washington's Georgetown, Annapolis' colonial waterfront, Alexander Hamilton's New York City home, Frank Lloyd Wright's Chicago houses, the Spanish architecture of Santa Fe, Seattle's Pioneer Square, Old Salem, N.C., or even the sod hut that was once a post office in Killdeer, N. Dak. From its Washington headquarters in Decatur House, Biddle's National Trust not only acts as catalyst for such projects but also runs nine landmarks...
...Call for Pay Cuts. With a freer political hand, Barrientos has been able to push ahead with his ambitious economic and social reforms, many of which are already bearing fruit. A vast modernization and economy drive has turned the deficit-ridden tin mines ($16.2 million in 1962) into a moneymaker and taxpayer for the first time. With the increase in tin production, export sales have risen 30% in the past three years to $150,400,000. Barrientos has also doubled petroleum production, built scores of new schools, hospitals and clinics, and added 20,000 miles of new roads...
...concurrent honorary degree from Columbia University-but his efforts at self-promotion were light to the point of weightlessness. The whole subject of statesmanlike memoirs, he said, invariably made him think of Arthur Balfour's critique of a Churchill memoir: "Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis.'" As for his own labors, Macmillan is thinking ahead to the fourth and last volume, which he will be tempted to call The Sigh of Relief...
...fellows who play football for Louisiana State University call themselves the Tigers, and the name has a certain edge of truth. In basketball, Tabbies would have been more like it. L.S.U. did produce Bob Pettit, who went on to make it big in the pros. That was in the early 1950s; since then, the school has had only one winning season, losing a dismal 212 out of its 323 games. Then two years ago L.S.U. hired away North Carolina State's Coach Press Maravich-and presto! Look at those Sabertooths! So far this season, they have won nine...