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Died. Harvey Samuel Firestone III, 30, an heir and only son of Board Chairman Harvey S. Firestone Jr. of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; of a fall (ruled suicide by a Cuban judge ) from the 20th floor of the Havana Hilton Hotel. A spastic cerebral palsy victim, Firestone graduated from law school last year, had planned to practice in St. Petersburg, where he and his wife and daughter made their home...
...back. X rays disclosed a compression fracture, with one vertebra crushed. But despite the injury to her spinal column, she suffered no paralysis. This week, fitted with a special brace, she is at St. Joseph's Hospital. What amazes Mrs. Rogers' physician, Dr. William A. Moore III, is the fact that she could have exerted herself at all. She had been ill at home for two weeks, recovering from a rheumatic disorder of the left knee and an attack of thrombophlebitis in her right leg. How far she might have lifted the car if she had been...
...that 100 lbs. of lead per sq. ft. will be required to keep Van Allen or flare radiation at a safe level. That figures at no less than 11,000 Ibs.-more than the total weight of the heaviest satellite yet put into orbit, the U.S.S.R.'s Sputnik III-for shielding in a cramped, man-carrying capsule only six feet in diameter. Dow conceded that better shielding materials than lead may be found. But he saw little chance that the light and roomy satellite stations so dear to space enthusiasts can be made radiation-safe-at least...
Phil Silvers Special (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Slowest Gun in the West is a sort of 60-minute "Low Noon," with Silvers as Sheriff Fletcher Bissell III, Jack Benny as a desperado named Chicken Finsterwald...
...succeed Maurice T. Moore, 64, TIME INC. board chairman since 1942, the board elected Andrew Heiskell, 44, publisher of LIFE for the past 14 years. Named president of TIME INC., replacing Larsen as the company's operating head: James A. Linen III, 47, who has been TIME'S publisher since 1945. Larsen, 61, who joined TIME as circulation manager in November, 1922, just before its first issue, and was LIFE'S publisher for ten years after its launching in 1936, becomes chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors; Moore continues as the company...