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Phillips Andover Academy and Groton both qualified for the quarter-finals of the Prince Elizabeth Cup for schoolboy eights. Groton won its second-round heat from Eton by three lengths, while Andover easily subdued Cheltenham College...
...look at his middle name-Brewster-isn't that pathetic?" Bingham indeed seemed out of place in The Bronx, which in considerable part is a low-income land of garment workers and small shopkeepers, of tenements and Bronx cheer. A slim, silver-haired, impeccably tailored product of Groton and Yale, Bingham has been for the past three years a U.S. representative to the United Nations...
Peace. A few hours later, at a nuclear submarine keel-laying in nearby Groton. Conn., Johnson was the Great Peace Seeker, warning against the rash use of military might. In an obvious crack at his probable November opponent, Barry Goldwater, Johnson said: "Those who would answer every problem with nuclear weapons display not bravery but bravado, not wisdom but a wanton disregard for the survival of the world and the future of the race...
...Aluminaut, probably the biggest research submarine under construction, is now being built for Reynolds Metals Co. by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics at Groton, Conn. It will be 50 ft. long and made mostly of 6½-in.-thick aluminum. To be launched this summer, it is expected to cruise comfortably three miles down and can stay submerged three days with a crew of three...
...next five years, and in Washington the company was awarded a $237 million contract to build the Centaur mooncraft. In Quincy, Mass., it laid the keel for the first vessel-an attack submarine-that it will build in the shipyard it bought last January from Bethlehem Steel. In Groton, Conn., General Dynamics launched its first civilian submarine, a research sub for the University of Pennsylvania. It also broke ground for a lime-processing plant in Detroit and delivered a 160-passenger CL-44 turboprop plane to Icelandic Airlines. Altogether, General Dynamics has rebounded from a 1961 loss of $143 million...