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...blunder has been made by the Queen's advisers, and it is hard to see how they will extricate themselves from the booby trap." The London Evening Standard spoke like a firm but indulgent nanny; half a dozen other London papers chimed in with dismay, outrage, chagrin. Cause of the clamor-and envy: the news that Antony Armstrong-Jones is going to work for the opposition...
Ruined Policy. To the extent that the conquest of Goa encouraged Sukarno to hope for a cheap victory of his own, it also caused widespread dismay in The Netherlands. Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns, 50, a strong man in a weak, conservative Cabinet, had based his New Guinea policy on the belief that India's "peaceable" Nehru would never support military action by Indonesia, and that the U.N. would immediately act against aggression. Now his policy lies in ruins...
...comic talents, and when Jackie brought down the house with his clowning in the P.S. 73 eighth-grade graduation play, he shouted at her from the stage: "I told you. Mom! I told you!" His formal education ceased at that level and, to his mother's dismay, he spent the next few years standing around on street corners, usually dressed in a grey suit, a pearl grey double-breasted vest, a yellow polka-dot tie, a polka-dot handkerchief, a polka-dot scarf, a chesterfield, a derby and spats-doing absolutely nothing...
...blithely repaired a fuel pump motor on the Constellation the day before the crash by cutting down a brush taken from a 1954 Mercury automobile generator. As it turned out, the engine with the ersatz part kept going during the fatal flight. But engineers from established airlines blinked in dismay at Imperial's incredibly slipshod methods of maintenance. Said one: "They must have been a little desperate...
...with a Slide Rule. So many variables would appall most executives, but they fail to dismay North American's tense, wiry President John Leland ("Lee") Atwood, 57. An oldtime aeronautical engineer who began his career as a designer at Douglas Aircraft and still keeps a slide rule on his desk, Atwood came to North American with bluff Chairman James H. ("Dutch") Kindelberger in 1934. The man primarily responsible for North American's diversification, Atwood prides himself on the fact that the company is now so broadly based that such setbacks as the washout of the 6-70 program...