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...KEITH LOCKARD Grand Prairie, Texas...
...merely won a great battle in the Pacific and averted a great disaster: The U.S. had proved its skill and might in a new form of warfare at sea. For, in the Battle of Midway, U.S. forces met and drove back the first full battle fleet, organized on the grand scale for modern war, which any nation has yet put to sea." So said TIME (June 15, 1942), sizing up a naval battle just fought off Midway Island in the Pacific. This week, on the 18th anniversary of the battle, TIME takes another look, adds Midway to the list...
...Supreme Court last week dealt with a familiar constitutional issue: the Fifth Amendment. Before the court was the case of New York City Attorney Max Halperin, convicted in 1955 of tax-fixing conspiracy* and attempting to corrupt witnesses before a grand jury. Before his indictment Halperin had declined, under the Fifth, to testify against himself before a grand jury. Because the trial judge permitted this use of the Fifth to be cited against him at his trial, the Supreme Court, on a relatively clear point of law, ordered a new trial...
Kier Nash's poem is exceptional only in that he is willing to make slight concessions to the grand old tradition of rhyme which has so long embellished English poetry. The other four poets are above this sort of thing...
...Colorado's Parachute Canyon not far from Grand Junction, the seed of an oil revolution was planted. Union Oil Co. of California last week fired up a $7,000,000 prototype retort to produce oil from shale rock, the biggest such attempt by private enterprise. As 400 top oilmen and Government officials gathered for the dedication, Colorado's Governor Steve McNichols put their dream into words: "All around us is one of the greatest potential sources of energy materials ever to be found on this earth...