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...Homeward bound for his new post as U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Robert B. Carney, commander of NATO forces in southern Europe, made a last inspection of the 8th Regiment of Italy's famed Bersaglieri. Remembering the strict uniform regulations of official Washington, Admiral Carney tried on, just for size, one of the flashy, droop-feathered hats of the crack sharpshooters...
Last week, after six weeks of business travel from Washington to San Diego (including conferences on Alaskan statehood, oil development, air transport) and meetings with the Pacific Northwest Trade Association in Tacoma, Atwood was homeward bound. Among his immediate projects: a $50,000 second floor for his newspaper plant...
Last week, swinging homeward through Denver and Chicago, the traveling Bostonians began to think that perhaps the heathen west of the mountains were more eager for salvation than the faithful at home. "They just seem to explode with the music, here in the West," said a percussionist after an overflow concert in Provo. Said a clarinetist, thinking of the many times that Southern and Western audiences had given the Bostonians standing ovations: "Back home, they take us so much more for granted...
Three weeks ago the three women were released and sent homeward via Moscow and Berlin. Each was given a tweed suit to wear, and it was in these that they arrived at New York's International Airport last week. Before they are assigned to new mission duties abroad, they will have "months" of rest at home: Evangelist Smith in Marshall, Mo., Nurse Rosser in Lynchburg, Va., and Teacher Dyer in Conway...
...bureau that arranged the trip. (Last year, on a similar junket, Wick's group could not get into Russia, but he made headlines nonetheless by cabling Stalin and asking whether the world was moving closer to war. Stalin's answer: No.) This time, already in London and homeward-bound, they suddenly got permission from the Russians to go to Moscow, obviously as part of the new peace campaign (see INTERNATIONAL). Publisher Wick, his wife and eight others hastily boarded a plane...