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That left Harold Stassen, once the hottest thing in Republican politics, out in the cold for what promised to be a tough general election. In November Republican McGonigle runs against Pittsburgh's powerful Democratic Mayor David Lawrence for Governor, and G.O.P. Representative Hugh Scott Jr. runs against incumbent Democratic Governor George Leader for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Ed Martin. For those who thought Stassen was through with politics, Childe Harold had a word of warning: "When God ends my life," said he. "that's when my career will...
...from the Kilgore National Bank. Van broke into a slightly twisted smile. "Maybe," he said, "they have more cause to congratulate me than anybody else." Within hours Columbia Artists' Vice-President William Judd was on the transatlantic phone with honied words. In the first shock of becoming the hottest musical commodity in the world, Van shuttled between awe and the depressing idea of "all those people making money out of me." But as the offers came pouring in, he began to display flashes of a sound horse-trading instinct. When he heard that both Columbia Records and RCA Victor...
International airline operations in Latin America, only 13 years ago the virtually unchallenged preserve of Pan American World Airways and Panagra, have become the world's hottest commercial aerial battle. Fifty-six international lines, including 37 fast comers incorporated in Latin America, now fight for passengers...
...space, the company has rocketed because Thiokol is a chief component in most solid rocket fuels. Thiokol powered the second, third and fourth stages of Explorer I and III into orbit, supplies the propellant for a whole family of missiles. This week word leaked that Thiokol is the hottest candidate for the whopping contracts to produce the propulsion systems for the Army's Pershing missile (TIME, April 7) and the Air Force's Bomarc, which will be converted from liquid to solid fuel...
...rails were fastened in cool weather, a hot summer day might make them expand and buckle out of line. So each 10,000-ft. length of massive rail was stretched 3 ft. by hydraulic jacks. At ordinary temperatures the rails are under tension like piano strings. Only on the hottest days do they barely relax. After the rails were stretched, they were aligned by special optical devices and bolted down so that they did not deviate from a perfectly straight line by more than five one-thousandths of an inch...