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...reorganizing NORAD, the U.S.-Canadian North American Air Defense Command. His principal complaint: he did not have enough authority over assignment of NORAD's Army, Navy and Air Force officers and materiel (TIME, May 19, 1958). But nothing much ever happened about West Pointer Partridge's proposals. Fortnight ago, the Pentagon announced that able "Pat" Partridge, 58, was retiring from the Air Force, effective July 31, after 41 years of service...
Freedom Leap. Fortnight ago two Burmese physicians were excitedly summoned by a Russian woman embassy doctor to Stryguine's fashionable 42 Inya Road address. They found Stryguine in a deep coma from an overdose of sleeping pills. He was surrounded by Russians who only reluctantly let the critically sick man be moved to Rangoon General Hospital. Two Soviet toughs went along to watch...
...election of twelve provincial legislators in wine-and petroleum-producing Mendoza a fortnight ago measured the fall of Frondizi's popularity: his party lost every seat that it had held. President Frondizi is booed in the newsreels, jeered at on public occasions, disliked by even a large portion of his own party. But he plunges grimly on: "A lowering of the standard of living of Argentines is inevitable during the next two years. It is impossible to continue consuming more than is produced...
...next board meeting fortnight ago was an ugly brawl. To the high-school auditorium went 1,000 of Aldine's concerned citizens, anxious to hear three board members who had promised a new solution. But after a look at the crowd's mood (two earlier meetings had broken up in fist fights), the three board members decided to keep their plan to themselves, and another member moved to adjourn the meeting. "The time for solution is now!" cried one citizen, and with that a riot erupted. The angry crowd dragged two board members from the stage, beat them...
...this year, mortgage money has not had to compete seriously in the money market because business has kept its capital expansion low. But as home building picks up and improved business sends more firms to the money market, tighter money could take the bloom off the housing boom. Fortnight ago, the Federal National Mortgage Association reported that it purchased more mortgages in the first quarter of this year than ever before, indicating that banks and other lending institutions are beginning to have trouble finding takers for their mortgages...