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...status of space flight, formerly made suspect by visionaries and fiction writers, was not defined in public until the Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp. held its Astronautics Symposium at San Diego (TIME, March 4). Planned as a small confab of space-minded missile men, the conference ballooned into a crammed mass meeting of engineers and scientists representing airplane, electronic and instrument companies as well as universities and all three armed services. A few years ago most of these hardheaded characters would not have attended a space-flight meeting except incognito. Now they are eager...
...handsome ruffian named Gigi, sent some of his subjects to infiltrate Nannarella's realm. "Gigi is finished anyway," they told her. "If you let us have some potatoes, we'll come over to you." Soon afterward, when she saw one of the would-be defectors in deep confab with Gigi himself, Nannarella knew she had been tricked...
...London confab with newshawks, Actress Vivien (Gone With the Wind) Leigh, 42, mother of a 22-year-old daughter and wife (for 16 years) of Sir Laurence Olivier, put down gossip that she will again be a mamma by labeling it the truth. Said she: "The baby is due on Dec. 22. If a girl, she'll be called Katherine. We haven't bothered thinking of a boy's name...
Next day, after motoring up to Cambridge, Mass., where he dropped sons John and Adlai Jr. off at Harvard, Stevenson turned back to New York for a private confab with influential Democrats. This week, looking forward to the big push in Minnesota, he heads out to Minneapolis to shake as many hands as possible before the March 20 primary...
Robert Taft was in Chicago, heart of the Taft country, to help Republicans raise money and to further his candidacy for the presidential nomination. For 30 hours Illinois Republicans reverently escorted their man on a whirlwind schedule from ham-and-eggs breakfast to political confab to press conference to lunch to cocktail party to dinner. At the press conference the candidate was affable and at ease, even when the touchy questions came up. What if General Eisenhower seeks the Republican nomination? "I don't think it would make much difference," said Taft. "The people...