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...MacMillan has made several big decisions. Items: ¶ Britain's antiaircraft command, which employs 100,000 regulars and reserves, is soon to be abolished. Reason: the Red air force's sweptwing, supersonic T-39 bomber (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) flies well above the range of Britain's heaviest ack-ack guns. MacMillan hopes to replace the gun batteries with radar-directed rockets, able to find and destroy enemy bombers traveling at 1,000 m.p.h. at heights up to 60,000 ft. But such rockets might take years to perfect and produce. ¶ The Royal Navy, most of whose...
...announcement did not come as a complete surprise. For six weeks Central has been one of the heaviest-traded stocks on the New York Stock Exchange, rising from 19¼ to 28. Young's announcement put it up another 1½ points.* For next year Young estimated earnings of about $36 million, more than enough to cover the proposed dividend. President Perlman was not as "confident" as his boss, but estimated earnings at $30 million...
...examining the circulation losses and gains that U.S. newspapers have experienced in the past seven years, says Cowles, anyone can chart the decline of profitable newspaper sensationalism. Newspapers, says he, have realized that complete and fair news coverage builds circulation. With few exceptions, those newspapers that "have had the heaviest circulation losses are not papers that regard full and fair news presentation as their primary function and reason for existence . . . Because of the rapidly rising educational level of the American public and its steadily widening range of interests, those newspapers that were built largely on the formula...
Died. Hugh Duffy, 87, the heaviest hitter (for one season) in baseball; after long illness; in Boston. Small (5 ft. 7 in., 165 Ibs. in his prime), genial Outfielder Duffy batted a record .438 (for which he got a $12.50-a-month pay boost) while playing with the Boston Beaneaters (National League) in 1894, compiled a .330 lifetime average. His record withstood the assaults of such great hitters as Willie Keeler (.432 in 1897) and Rogers Hornsby (.424 in 1924), but Duffy modestly disclaimed any special knowledge of batting lore. "You just walk up there," he said...
...main problem for Little has been finding a replacement for last year's iron man left tackle John Casella. Ex-Marine Ben Hoffman, who is the heaviest member of the squad at 225 pounds, won the right tackle spot last year and has held onto it. Instead of Casella on the left this year, Little has started Paul Tremblay, a 205 pound sophomore. Captain Opydyke is at right guard and Fred Bucci, a 200 pound junior, is at left guard John Nelson, who alternated at center last year, will go at the pivot position today...