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...world's best springboard diver is a carrot-topped, 21-year-old University of Texas senior named David ("Skippy") Browning. Skippy has won four Amateur Athletic Union National Indoor diving titles and four National Collegiate Indoor titles, and in Helsinki this summer he led the U.S. to a 1-2-3 sweep of Olympic springboard diving (TIME...
...carrot to go with the big stick-a face-saving proposal which might enable the Reds to agree to voluntary repatriation of prisoners. The U.N. proposed to reclassify and move out of its stockades all prisoners unwilling to return to Communist control, so that, at the time of any exchange, all remaining prisoners would be available for repatriation. The Communists were interested in this; but it still stuck in their craw that three out of four of the U.N.'s Chinese prisoners had indicated that they would forcibly resist any attempt to send them home. The Reds continued...
...University of Texas-carrot-topped junior, David ("Skippy") Browning, 21, first-or second-place taker in every national springboard (3-meter) diving meet since 1948, a perfectionist who showed almost splashless style last week in piling up his winning 1,037.45 points...
...Love Lucy (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS) is an untrammeled TV comedy show distinguished by the high-quality slapstick of carrot-topped Comedienne Lucille Ball and her handsome Cuban-born husband, Desi Arnaz. Filmed especially for television in Hollywood, Lucy's combination of well-written scripts and rowdy good humor proved popular enough last month to displace both Arthur Godfrey and Milton Berle, and thus became the nation's No. i TV attraction...
...Carrot. Here, in the rejuggling of subsidies and taxes, was the key to Rab Butler's budget. After six years of Socialist Labor's policy of "fair shares for all," Britain was switching back to an economy based on greater rewards for harder work. The new taxes were rigged to encourage overtime work, which in the past had been discouraged by tax rates. If it encourages coal miners, for example, to produce only 10% more coal, that alone would go a long way toward erasing the deficit in the international balance of payments...