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Sporting Life is the arbitrator, critic, memory and chief tipster of British racing and other gambling sports. Sporting Life reporters at every track decide the starting odds by which bets are settled all over Great Britain, impartially provide all trainers with tips on the opposition. They answer some 11,000 queries a year on everything from saddle sizes to 19th century Derby results. Circulating 60,000 copies a day (at 4½? a copy), Sporting Life is as essential as the Times to the "well-britched people" who control or patronize British racing; eight copies go to Buckingham Palace...
...each student's study was to be in the humanities, a proportion larger than is required at such schools as M.I.T. and Caltech. "We need creative, responsible scientists and engineers," explains young (43), pipe-smoking President Joseph B. Platt, head of the physics department and onetime (1949-51) chief research physicist for the Atomic Energy Commission. "These men will need solid training in the basic sciences on which technology is built. They can learn the applications of these basics on the job. The ability to judge values will be just as important to them as the techniques of their...
...Cosmic radiation will not halt manned space flight, said Spaceman von Braun. The belt of radiation newly discovered by the Explorer satellites was unexpected, but most of it seems of low energy, and protection should be possible. Agreeing, Dr. Herbert York, chief scientist of the U.S. Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency, said the belt is probably only several earth-diameters wide at most, not enough for a fatal radiation dose during a flight of several hours through...
Strictly speaking, Figure Wizard Donner did not succeed "Red" Curtice, the whiz-bang salesman, production and styling expert. In the shift, Curtice's job and power were split. Donner was named board chairman (succeeding Albert Bradley) and chief executive officer. For the presidency, the board picked a dark-horse candidate from G.M.'s executive pool: lean (160 Ibs.), baldish John Franklin Gordon, 58, who had been vice president for the body and assembly divisions. Fred Donner will continue to work from New York, watch G.M.'s pocketbook, speak for the company on broad policy. Jack Gordon will...
Died. Lieut. General John C. H. Lee, U.S.A. (ret.), 71, General Eisenhower's chief supply officer in the European Theater of Operations during World War II, who implemented the fabulous air and sea operation that kept U.S. troops on the Continent supplied with food and the material of war; of a coronary occlusion; in York, Pa. After the war, hard-driving "Courthouse" Lee commanded the Mediterranean Theater from headquarters in Italy, survived loud accusations in the press that he abused his authority by inflating rank's privileges. Following his retirement in 1947, Lee became active among the laity...