Word: corpe
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...Europe's capitals this season is George Frost Kennan, 53, former State Department policymaker and U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, now a visiting professor at Britain's Oxford University. In November and December, Democrat Kennan fanned European neutralism when he proposed, over the British Broadcasting Corp., that the West start up negotiations with the U.S.S.R. leading to the neutralization of Germany and later of Europe (TIME, Dec. 23), and just before the NATO conference he came perilously close to undercutting the U.S. position by implying that NATO was an obstacle to reaching a settlement with the Russians...
...waited 42 minutes, then filed a carefully sublunar story reporting that a ham operator near Columbus. Ohio, had now picked up the beep. "He suggested," said the A.P., "that it might be a signal from some kind of space vehicle." In A.P.'s second story British Broadcasting Corp. engineers pronounced that the signal was probably earthbound. The A.P. finally traced the beep to the "electronic groan" of an idling Russian teleprinter on the 20-megacycle band used by the Sputniks. (The teleprinter was on 20.025 mc.; the Sputnik frequency...
...launching in less than a month. Another call flashed the news across the continent to the San Diego headquarters of Convair, builder of the Atlas. And in a small office on Manhattan's Park Avenue, yet another call came to Frank Pace Jr., 45, president of General Dynamics Corp., the giant industrial complex that embraces not only Convair but half a dozen other defense and weapons-producing industries...
LITTLE-BIG INCH PIPELINE will start carrying oil instead of natural gas from Gulf Coast to East. FPC examiner approved bid by Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. for conversion after Texas Eastern agreed to compromise terms laid down by competing barge operators, who have been fighting switch...
ALASKA OIL LANDS in Kenai moose range will finally be opened for exploration. All oil leasing has been suspended by U.S. since Richfield Oil Corp. made Alaska's first big oil strike in Kenai last summer. Now Interior Secretary Seaton says U.S. authorities "are very close to agreement on additional areas" to be opened for oil search under stiffer rules for preserving wildlife...