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Long under fire by editors for stifling news on the pretext of "security," the Defense Department last week issued a report by its own special committee on the problem. The most explosive recommendation: reporters should be summoned to "a grand jury investigation" to divulge their source in the case of any serious "leak" of information. This was so certain to infuriate the press that Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson pointedly tagged it with "serious reservations" as he released the report...
...report was released, the House subcommittee on Government Operations, headed by California's Democratic Representative John E. Moss, opened new hearings in its investigation of Government information policies. Moss denounced the grand jury proposal as "shocking." Then his committee disclosed one reason why the Pentagon and reporters wrangled so much; none of the topmost information officers in the Army, Navy or Air Force had any previous experience in public-information jobs outside the Pentagon...
Gunning along at 21,000 feet through the overcast skies above the Grand Can yon, a T.W.A. Constellation collided with a United Airlines DC-7 one morning last summer, sending 128 people plunging to their deaths in the worst commercialairline disaster in U.S. aviation history (TIME, July 9). To ensure greater safety in the nation's crowded skies, the Civil Aeronautics Administration this week ordered 23 long-range radars designed to give controllers a picture of aircraft from 15,000 to 70,000 feet in virtually all the U.S. air space...
Although CAA's radar network plan was announced early last spring, it was given top priority only after the Grand Canyon disaster shocked Congress into appropriating an additional $35 million toward its completion. Currently, CAA controllers outside of New York City and Washington, D.C. must form their pictures of air traffic conditions from position reports radioed in by pilots. The new installations will enable controllers to scan the skies for 200 miles around 23 of the nation's major cities, spotting everything from highflying, supersonic military jets to plodding commercial airliners and buzzing private planes...
More than a century has passed since Byron swam from the Lido to Venice and through the Grand Canal (four miles), and nearly two since Napoleon pronounced the pigeon-swept square of St. Mark's "the best drawing-room in Europe." But the destiny of Venice remains constant, to be "the observed of all observers." The latest to succumb to the spell of the floating city is Critic and Novelist Mary McCarthy (TIME, Nov. 14, 1955), who has fashioned the spectacle of Venice into a handsome and intelligent mosaic of art, history and personal impressions. Complete with 46 elegant...