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...than he wanted last year, McNamara merely refused to spend it. This time the House Armed Services Committee not only voted an extra $491 million for the big bombers for the coming fiscal year, but "directed" that it be used-something no one is sure Congress can do. Clearly, Curt LeMay had again...
...reappraisal. In the process of renovating Vanderbilt's 211-acre Hyde Park, N.Y., estate, now maintained by the National Park Service, workmen uncovered a 30-ft.-wide ceiling mural depicting bare-breasted nymphs gamboling around an old man with his head in his hand. Reportedly painted over on curt instructions from Vanderbilt's wife, the mural will henceforth be left unwhitewashed for what the Park Service described as "historical and interpretive reason...
...Court will hear the case in Representatives of the Club pleaded Cambridge at 11 a.m. not guilty to the license charge in District Court November 21, but their lawyer asked for a quick decision in order to bring the issue to the higher curt. The District Court judge entered a find-of guilty, assessing nominal fines...
...This incident." commented the Reporter-News in an editorial, "brings home to us that precautions must be taken even on the local level to safeguard any information the Communists might want." Last week, along with copies of the Reporter-News, Subscribers Mozsik, Petrov and Yashin got a curt cancellation notice from Publisher McMahon: "This, gentlemen, is the last copy of the Abilene Reporter-News you will receive." Just how his move would affect his former subscribers, McMahon did not explain. "I know they can buy the paper on a newsstand," he said. Nonetheless, the Reporter-News will continue to publish...
...catnip, canny Heinz Weigt has bestowed membership on a sprinkling of industrial and show business high society, claims as his most illustrious guest aging Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler's economic wizard. Gina Lollobrigida has membership card 101. Other card carriers include German Stars Curt Jurgens and Winnie Markus, Tape-Recorder Tycoon Max Grundig, onetime Boxing Champ Max Schmeling, Film Producer Ilse Kugaschweski, and one registered aristocrat: Friedrich Carl Prince Fugger von Babenhausen...