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Many of these 35-odd items could be blown up into full-size news stories, but our editors feel that when a man everybody knows gets married, or a woman whose name isa household term has a baby, etc., a brief recording of these events is all you want to know. They are a part of the condensation which permits TIME to tell as much of the week's news as it is possible to tell...
...planned. At four o'clock one afternoon a group of young Army officers revolted in Caracas' San Carlos barracks. By nine o'clock they had forced their way into the strategic Escuela Militar (military school) and Miraflores Palace, the Presidential residence. They had also captured President Isaías Medina Angarita...
Matters, president of the Student Council and newly-elected chairman of the ISA in the United States, stated that plans were still in an incomplete state but that conferences in the future, similar to the recent one in Washington, would probably be held each year...
...Iowa, with 10,000 tons of additional protection and speed (designed for 35 knots compared to 27), isa faster, tougher version of the North Carolina type carrying nine 16-inch guns. More than any other U.S. ship, the Iowa is protected against aerial bombs, submarine torpedoes, surface shellfire. Her 200,000-h.p. engines are ten times as powerful as those of the old (1910) Wyoming. Her auxiliary power plant, the one that lights the lights and turns the turrets, churns up enough electricity for a city of 20,000-more horsepower (14,000) than a pre-World War I dreadnought...
...Dutch Government-in-Exile, the Mediterranean victory had a double kick: the 1,628-ton Isaäc Sweers was launched, but incomplete, when Germany marched into The Netherlands. She was towed to a British shipyard, where she was completed...