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...Glossier and more ambitious than most of its fellow picnickers in the meadow of political life, a new "Journal of Divergent Views on National Issues" begins to sit imposingly on the newsstands. Its editors, Yale Juniors, are more than hopeful about its job; indeed, they sound oracular; they will "cover from all points of view the major problematic situations countervailing our way of life". To start with, they cover the United Nations...
...Jack Kennedy invited him to his inauguration. Every ballplayer worth his mitt got the de luxe, or crumb-bum treatment, and even Bernard Baruch, elder statesman of the stock market ticker, benched down at Shor's now and then. But Toots made no attempt to attract the glossier types of café society. "Who needs ya?" he bellowed cheerily...
...atlas must be a tome, but it need not to be a tombstone. The editors of LIFE and the mapmakers of Rand McNally have produced a popular atlas which is not only larger and glossier than others in its class (it does not compete with such technicians' works as the five-volume, $125 London Times Atlas of the World), but which gives a reader the earth's shape and feel as well as its names and places...
Four days before Ike's arrival, as Cabinet members and top military brass of 15 nations descended on Paris, the annual NATO Council meeting had opened. The setting was glossier and glassier than ever before. To replace the sagging "temporary" prefab it has occupied since 1952, NATO now inhabits a six-story, A-shaped (for "Atlantic") building containing $10 million worth of Danish and Belgian furniture, German and Dutch electronics devices, Italian marble, British kitchen equipment, U.S. airconditioning, and (alas) a French telephone system. But as if to prove Parkinson's law of "plans and plants,"* the first...
...million for the lot), and the first test will probably be made from a Pacific island next September. From the gawky Far Side, the Air Force hopes to get information on cosmic rays, the earth's magnetic field and space temperature that will be sorely needed when the glossier and more expensive military rockets begin to navigate space...