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...case involved John Lang, a 46-year-old assistant solicitor who had worked five years for Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.. Britain's chief maker of chemicals. Last fortnight I.C.I, fired Lang. Reason: the Ministry of Supply had notified the company that all secret government contracts would be withdrawn unless Lang was removed from contact with them...
Long's big bat is the power behind the Pirates. The tall, rugged first baseman leads the league in home runs (17) and is second in hitting (.377). A fortnight ago he set a major-league record by hitting the ball into the stands in eight consecutive games, had to come out of the dugout for a curtain call after the last homer when delighted Pittsburgh fans raised a fuss that stopped the game cold. At 30 Long is one of the oldest Pirate regulars (average age of the regular lineup: 25). For a while it looked...
After outdistancing his entourages in a fortnight's dashing about Italy, tireless Tourist Harry S. (for Swinomish) Truman raced on to Austria, where he was soon ensconced in the third row of a Salzburg concert hall. As Music Lover Truman watched approvingly, Conductor Bernhard Paumgartner struck up the band, then quickly stopped the music while guards kicked out a movie cameraman who had ignored a signal to go away from Truman territory. At a dinner that followed, the former President, never averse to giving hell even to the press when it nettles him, outspokenly applauded the maestro...
...running short of rations, had nothing but wet clothes and knew he was pitting his strength against time. He never spotted another ship. When he finally made a landfall on New Zealand's west coast near Karamea, he hoisted distress signals but no one saw them. A fortnight ago he finally found himself off Westport harbor; in desperation he prepared to tackle its rough entrance bar as soon as he had light...
...Boom-Bah! A fortnight ago, nearly 31 years and some 7,000 miles from Princeton, 18 college boys in their mid-50s, headed by Princeton's head football coach and Class of '25 President Charles Caldwell, got out of a plane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. With this orange-jacketed contingent were 13 wives, a departed User's widow, two classmates' sons. Instead of traveling farthest to his class's 1956 reunion, Seaweed Osawa, Mohammed-like, had persuaded part of the reunion to come to him. He had sent invitations to more than...