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...nomination, and followed through for this week's report-in-depth on the nominating convention. Thirty staffers, headquartered in the temporary TIME offices at the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles' Biltmore Hotel, fanned out through corridors, caucuses, convention floor locations and delegation suites to piece together the far-flung elements of a historic week...
...pilots at far-flung airstrips-England, Japan, Turkey, Alaska-began to see the strange, gliderlike jet come and go on its errands. But details of its mission and its performance were hard to come by. Whenever a U-2 landed, military police swarmed around it. Its pilots were civilians, and when an airman would nudge up close at the officers' club bar to swap plane lore, the U-2 pilot would smile and move along...
...growing, most diversified company in the rubber industry. Last year General Tire and its 46 subsidiaries and affiliates grossed more than $730 million (net: $26 million), turned out such diverse products as tires, rocket engines, tennis balls, plastics, steel, wrought iron, movies and girdles. The reason for so many far-flung enterprises, explains O'Neil blithely, is that "I wanted enough diversification so that my sons wouldn't have to scrap with each other." Last week Board Chairman O'Neil shuffled General Tire's management, laid out new areas of command for his sons; he named...
Susse's reputation for fine sculpture casting runs back 200 years. André Susse, 49, the seventh in the Susse line of foun-drymen, is a meticulous craftsman and connoisseur. Over the years, Susse Brothers has played host and helper to such far-flung makers of sculpture history as Constantin Brancusi, Jean Arp, Henry Moore, Germaine Richier, and the painter-sculptors Picasso, Giacometti, Braque, Dali and Chagall...
...loop 50 miles in diameter. In the U.S., one was set up in the open desert in Arizona, another in a sprawling New Jersey state forest, a third in the Maine woods. Last week, after laborious analysis and collation of recordings received by each station in the far-flung network, Dr. Bomke reported what they had found...