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...whose genius has ennobled the arts and sciences, illustrated the ideals of the Church and enriched the heritage of humanity"; Author John Updike, 32, Critic Aileen Ward, 40, and Poet John Crowe Ransom, 75, each presented with a $1,000 National Book Award for last year's The Centaur, John Keats: The Making of a Poet and Selected Poems, respectively; Arizona Democrat Carl Hayden, 86, now the Senator with the longest record of service in the entire history of the Senate, having passed the longevity total of the late Wyoming Republican Francis Warren; and U.S. Ambassador Fulton Freeman...
...Updike The Centaur, Rabbit...
...over the sprawling capital were shaken out of bed by what some thought at first was an early onset of the monsoon season. But the evenly-spaced rumblings in the distance were not thunder; they were a diversionary barrage from the anti-aircraft guns of the British aircraft carrier Centaur. By 7 a.m., when government workers began leaving for their 7:30 jobs, Tanganyika's five-day-old army mutiny was over and East Africa's oldest independent government was back in control...
Rocketing Rout. With the Uganda and Kenya rebellions quelled for the moment, only Tanganyika's Nyerere remained in any danger from his own army. That situation was rectified at week's end when, at Nyerere's request, the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Centaur in Dar es Salaam harbor went into action...
...Mead Corp. photographs the flow of fibers in papermaking to keep a check on quality, and other rapid-fire cameras stand duty at the looms in textile mills to spot the reason for a thread break. General Dynamics located the cause of a hydrogen valve failure in the Centaur space vehicle by setting a Fairchild camera to watch it at simulated flight speeds...