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Since a web-footed crew of Australians collected 14 of 23 gold medals at the Melbourne Olympics, the rest of the swimming world has faced up to an unhappy question: How and when can they ever catch up with the Aussies? While they ponder, the Australian Swimming Union is doing its best to aggravate the problem. The British Empire Games are a year away and the Rome Olympics are four years in the future, but this week the A.S.U. is already passing the hat among Aussie fans for $112,000 with which to recruit and train faster and flashier teams...
...dozen expert teachers have been remarkably successful in talking proud parents into paying for additional private lessons for their children. Once they take a professional interest in a prospective star, the coaches push the child into competition as soon as possible. Young Murray Rose, who won three Olympic gold medals and holds two free-style world records (400 meters and 440 yds.), is, at 18, a seven-year veteran of tough meets all over Australia. Lorraine Crapp, 19, winner of two gold medals at Melbourne and holder of every women's free-style record from 200 meters...
Unlikely Pair. On the surface a more unlikely pair of big businessmen could hardly be found than Wooldridge and Ramo. A trim (5 ft. 9¾ in., 155 Ibs.) man who looks out at the world through gold-rimmed spectacles, President Dean Wooldridge, 43, looks and acts the part of a professor; he is calm, introspective, plays the organ for relaxation. Vice President Simon Ramo is a striking opposite. Though equally trim (5 ft. 10½ in., 158 Ibs.), he is flamboyant and mercurial, takes mambo lessons for relaxation. Wooldridge marshals his thoughts carefully, is all business and lucidity...
Ideas into Gold. R-W's type of success can be found again and again in the industry. Among the new successes: ¶Varian Associates was founded in 1948 in Palo Alto, Calif, by Physicist Russell and Engineer Sigurd Varian as a company that had "nothing to offer but advanced technology and ideas." Today, as the biggest producer of the klystron tube, which guides Air Force missiles and irradiates Army food, Varian has grown from seven employees to 1,230, did an annual business of $11 million in 1956. Estimated 1957 sales: up another 27% to $14 million...
...Gold of Naples. Italian Director Vittorio De Sica makes high comedy of low life in Naples, and wins some superb performances from Sophia Loren, Silvana Mangano, Toto and Vittorio De Sica (TIME...