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...work, joined up as an Army Air Corps flying cadet at 23, in World War II successfully led the first low-level B-29 fire raid on Tokyo for LeMay's long-range 21st Bomber Command. For six years he was LeMay's deputy at SAC. Restless, compact (5 ft. 8 in., 165 Ibs.), tiger-tense Tommy Power winds up three years as chief housekeeper of Air Research & Development, where he ably shepherded the growth of missile and jet design. Power won the SAC job over Lieut. General Frank F. Everest and old SACman Lieut. General Emmett (Rosie...
Death Revealed. Johnny Torrio, 75, compact (5 ft. 5 in.), button-eyed dean of Chicago's Prohibition-era gang leaders, (e.g., Dion O'Bannion, Hymie Weiss) who brought Al ("Scarface") Capone from Brooklyn as a $75-a-week mug, tutored him, later (1925) bequeathed him his underworld empire and title of Public Enemy No. 1; of a heart attack; on April 16, in Brooklyn. Dapper Torrio, a topnotch organizer, executive and marksman (tagged by colleagues as "Terrible Johnny" long before police got anything on him), joined Big Jim Colosimo in Chicago as chief triggerman in 1910, gathered...
...nations in the European community: France, West Germany, Italy, and the Benelux countries, have been asked to ratify, by the close of this year, two treaties which promise to remodel them into a compact industrial unit. An outgrowth of existing West European agreements, the Common Market Treaty plans to eliminate all tariff walls and erect a common rate among its signing nations. To further this common economic endeavor, a second treaty, "Euratom," will set about overhauling Europe's industrial power, replacing by 1967 present coal and oil energy with 15 million kilowatts of unclear power. While the Common Market Treaty...
...other stable, Iron Liege would have been top banana. But at Mrs. Gene Markey's fabulously successful Calumet Farm he was only a talented understudy,* the pacesetter for the compact Gen. Duke, ranked by the experts as the finest three-year-old in the land. At post time Iron Liege was held at better than 8 to 1 in the finest field to run in years. Even his jockey, brash Willie Hartack, doubted his chances. Bold Ruler, ridden by canny Eddie Arcaro, was a solid 6-to-5 favorite...
...course has, over the years, tried to better its means of achieving a "Harvard Standard" in under-graduate writing. To further this end a more compact Handbook will be published next year. It will include reference material for figurative language problems (the task of Language and Informal Logic this year) and will be supplemented by a dozen or so "top-flight" essays from present freshman writing. With the Handbook for reference, the high-grade essays as a standard, and revised editions of the two anthologies for inspiration, incoming freshmen and Director Harold Martin plan to settle down to an efficient...