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...Fortnight ago, at his first Pentagon press conference, Wilson announced that he knew the budget would be cut. Without waiting for Wilson to propose specific cuts, the generals and admirals began explaining to reporters and others that it could not be done. "Wilson is fiddling with our national security," cried a Navyman last week. "You can't make across-the-board cuts without hurting the whole armed services," said an Air Force officer...
Crooner Frank Sinatra, dunned by the Bureau of Internal Revenue a fortnight ago for $109,997 in back federal income taxes, applied to the Nevada state tax commission for permission to buy a 2% interest in the gambling concession at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas' newest casino. Reported price of the share...
...expectant reporters and photographers and a group of doctors awaited the arrival of a transatlantic plane from New York. The object of their vigil: Actor Sir Laurence Olivier, who was bringing his sick and troubled wife Vivien Leigh home from Hollywood, where she collapsed with a nervous breakdown a fortnight...
Schippers was a fillin. L'Heure Espagnole was to have been led by the veteran Tullio Serafin, 74. But Serafin was ill at his home in Italy. Until a fortnight ago Schippers had never had Ravel's score in his hands, but he is what is known in the heater as a quick study. With his flair for the modern and his incisive baton technique, Schippers came through fine. Ravels music sparkled, and the cast matched it with high-spirited singing and acting...
When two company supervisors at Westinghouse's big Lester (Pa.) jet engine Plant walked into the washroom one morning last fortnight they saw what looked like a clear-cut infraction of a long-standing company rule. Nine men were gathered about a crap game. They were immediately fired. But one of the nine, a gear fitter named Edgar Fulmer protested that he had merely dropped by the washroom, and had never touched the bones. Last week, when the plant supervisor refused to reinstate him, almost 7,000 Westinghouse workers waked out and stopped all production. This week the Plant...