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...short, before that tub is halfway to the Hub. the spectator understands that what he is giggling at is a shaggy story-nothing so apocalyptically sneaky, of course, as John Huston's deathless Beat the Devil, but a piece of fine hairy humor all the same. Deftly adapted by Ruth Brooks Flippen and Bruce Geller from a novel by Nat Benchley, Ship is tautly run by Director Irving Brecher, and it carries a competent crew of supporting players: Robert Wagner, Dolores Hart, Frankie Avalon, Frank Gorshin. Naturally, the captain is always in charge. One minute he cheerily pours whisky...
Threats of snow this afternoon, however, may dampen a demonstration today in Boston in support of the students going to Washington. The Hub march is planned for 2 to 4 p.m. in front of the State House...
Ever since highway patrolmen started using radar to trap speedsters shortly after World War II, U.S. motorists have been searching for ways to beat the electronic rap. With misguided ingenuity, hot-rodders packed hub caps with uranium ore or loaded them with steel balls; they sprayed the fan blades with aluminum paint, dangled static chains from rear bumpers, festooned their radio aerials with strips of aluminum foil. But nothing seemed to foil highway radar, and latter-day Barney Oldfields continued to be hauled in like herring in a net, whining "Unfair...
...materials from, just about every city, village and hamlet in the nation. Newspapers bulge with want ads for stress analysts, aerothermodynamicists, flutter and vibration specialists. New plants are being built not where the rivers or railroads are, but where the brains are. Around Boston, a bustling aerospace hub has risen where only pig farms were a few years ago. For Florida, aerospace is doing today what oil did for Texas in Spindletop days. Aerospace also underwrites the economy of southern California, has created new manufacturing bases in Denver and Dallas, Phoenix and Minneapolis...
...some indication of how elusive the quality of being Harvard is, since Mr. Stevenson in a Princeton graduate. Uncertainty about this quality bothers newcomers to Cambridge and returning students alike. Beyond the one fact about its nature that everyone returning learns, that it changes very little (Boston, being the hub of the universe, stands still while the rest of the world moves), Harvard chastely offers few clues to the curious or the irreverent...