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...Navy ships and aircraft reported unusual Russian missile activity. The Navy tracked a couple of Russian intercontinental missile shots into northern waters, considered deploying a U.S. submarine to snag a made-in-Moscow ICBM nose cone before Russian pick-up ships could get to it. During the past fortnight the Navy watched with increasing interest as radar-studded Russian trawlers headed thousands of miles southward into the Central Pacific. Last week the Navy and the U.S. got the news through Moscow's Tass Agency of what the Red fleet...
Hickock and Smith, veteran lawbreakers sent to Lansing on larceny and burglary raps, were paroled in mid-1959. Fortnight ago, ending a man hunt set off by a tip from the imprisoned farm hand, police in Las Vegas, Nev. arrested Hickock and Smith at the request of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. Weak-faced Richard Hickock, 28, and runty (5 ft. 4 in.) Perry Smith, 31, broke down under questioning, were arraigned last week on charges of murder. In November, they confessed, they drove to the Clutter farm in the middle of the night, entered the house through an unlocked...
...Fortnight ago, Pinay took his objections to the public. Said he: "It is surprising enough that the present government should consider carrying out what are really socialist policies. But that I should be required to apply such a policy is altogether out of the question." And last week, before a showdown session with Debre, he said that he had no intention of going quietly: "If the government does not want me any more, it will have to issue a decree removing me from office...
...cable from U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. "I permit myself," wired Hammarskjold, "to express the hope that the line of independent neutrality . . . will be firmly maintained." Twenty-four hours later, with full approval of the U.S. State Department, King Savang Vatthana quietly overthrew the "pro-Western" army group that fortnight ago tumbled the government of ex-Premier Phoui Sananikone (TIME...
...once. Last week the Duke of Bedford, 42, was in the middle of divorce proceedings started by his Duchess No. 2. In Edinburgh last week, Argyll, Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland and Salesman of Argyll Socks in all the ads, was trying to shed Duchess No. 3. Fortnight earlier, the Duchess of Bedford's sister was divorced by Earl Cadogan (who owns one-quarter of London's arty Chelsea district) on the ground of adultery with the earl's former accountant. "If this pace keeps up," said one Londoner, "there will soon...