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Died. Hugh Baillie, 75, longtime (1935-55) president of United Press, a hotly competitive wire-service man who started as a police reporter and sportswriter, later ran his 197 worldwide bureaus with a drill sergeant's bark; of heart disease; in La Jolla, Calif. Baillie put snap in U.P.'s once-stodgy reporting, telling war correspondents to "get the smell of warm blood into your copy," while scoring himself such notable beats as an exclusive interview with Hitler in 1935 and an unprecedented reply from Stalin in 1946 to cabled questions on cold war aims...
Homestake not only reopened but also prospered by introducing cost-cutting technical innovations. Among them: automated hoisting equipment; TV monitoring and short-wave communications; tungsten carbide bits, used to drill holes for explosives, that last for 450 ft. of drilling v. 16 in. for the old steel bits, and have doubled each miner's productivity. It takes an average three tons of ore to produce a single ounce of gold, but Homestake literally wrings out every ounce. The company salvages $300,000 worth of gold a year by such thrifty measures as washing workers' clothes and hands, vacuuming...
Members of armed forces reserve units must have completed their active duty before applying to the Peace Corps. Any remaining weekly drill or summer camp obligations after active duty are postponed while a member of the reserve is overseas...
...Soup. Keitel's stiff, drill-field prose comes alive only during his account of the War's last month. As the Russians swarmed across the Oder to ward Berlin and Hitler took sullenly to his bunker, Keitel and his faithful driver took off on a quixotic swing to rally the shattered Wehrmacht forces around the capital. He relished the experience: hasty lunches of pea soup in a forest command post, ducking into ditches to avoid strafing Allied fighters, brave speeches to the scared kids and old men in ill-fitting Volkssturm helmets who had been left to defend...
...That Flesh-Eating Beast." All jaw and sophistical truth-aches is what ails The Condemned of Altona, at Lincoln Center's Beaumont Theater. Jean-Paul Sartre loves to play moral dentist to his time, and this play is his low-speed drill for making everyone cringe with guilt. An aged German shipping tycoon (George Coulouris) is dying of throat cancer, and he wants to get hand-on-the-Bible oaths of dynastic fealty from his daughter and two sons. Immured in an upstairs room, the elder son, Frantz, has not been seen by his father for 1 3 years...