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...August. From her home in Jamaica, she brought a tiered wedding cake and a long bridal gown. Her English fiance, John Michael Hewitt, 30, was a biology master at the exclusive Shawnigan Lake School for boys near Victoria. Hewitt, who formerly taught in Jamaica, had splurged his savings to furnish a cottage on the school grounds and buy a car. Dorothy had plans for a formal wedding, a big reception, and a happy life in the campus community...
...Hendrickson charges focused on the real issue; they were merely instances of the Senator's obscene and uncouth manner. The issue--in the five groups of charges there seemed to be but one--came up under Category Three, which stated that McCarthy "invited and urged federal employees to furnish him with information to aid in his investigations even if they would be violating the law, Presidential orders and their oaths of office...
...furniture so carefully monitored as it is in West Germany's orderly civil service. Last week, Adenauer's pfennig-pinching Minister of Finance Fritz Schaffer issued a directive to spell the whole thing out in precise. Teutonic detail. Herr Schaffer decreed a maximum expenditure of $60 to furnish a typist's office, $140 for "experts working in special fields," and about $285 for the office appointments of a department head...
...platform for a radar tower and a mass of sensitive electronic gear. Unlike similar outposts built by the British in World War II, the unarmed Air Force stations will seek only to locate, rather than destroy, enemy aircraft; they will also guide friendly fighters to the target, furnish weather information to ships and shore. For the 30-odd technicians assigned to each island, living will be cramped and bleak indeed; the Air Force plans to rotate its seagoing units every 30 days...
...valleys in the U.S. The fight started in 1948 when the Interior Department proposed a huge new dam. The Idaho Power Co. countered with an offer to build three smaller dams. They would cost only $133 million, compared to $383 million for the Government's one dam, yet furnish two-thirds as much power. The Interior Department opposed Idaho Power's application, argued that it would not fit in with overall plans for the Northwest...