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...important picture on the program at the Exeter is not the feature, Touch and Go, but an hour-long documentary entitled Helen Keller in Her Story. Much adulation has been poured on Miss Keller and much has been written about her, including a good deal of pseudo-inspirational treacle. She has been variously called a saint and used as a symbol of hope and human aspiration. But the excesses of hero-worship have tended to obscure the fact that Miss Keller is a most charming human being. It is the great service of this film that it reveals...
...Kaufman Thuma ("K.T.") Keller, 70, will retire April 17 as board chairman of Chrysler Corp. after 30 years of service, half of it as president. In 1950 Keller turned over the operating job to President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert, since then has devoted much of his time to activities such as getting the U.S. guided-missile program off the ground (TIME, Jan. 30). Another change at Chrysler: F. W. Misch, 50, vice president, will move up to corporation finance officer, succeeding Financial Wizard George W. Troost, 53, Chrysler's No. 2 man, who died last week after a brain...
...figure in the gestation phase of the missile industry was K. T. (for Kaufman Thuma) Keller, then president of Chrysler Corp., whom President Truman put in charge of the program in 1950. Production Man Keller had little patience with visionary plans; he wanted hardware, both in the factories and in the skies, and he got it. The missiles now in operational use-the Matador, Nike, Corporal, Terrier-are the result of Keller's drive. Since most of them are soon to be replaced, Keller has been criticized for loading the inventory with so-so weapons. But this was inevitable...
Nike. In the antiaircraft division, the Army has the well-publicized Nike (rhymes with Mikey), a liquid-fuel rocket launched by a solid-fuel booster and steered toward invading bombers by radio. The Nike dates back to the Keller era and is not the last word, but the Army believes that it will hit any attacking bomber sent over in the near future. Admittedly the Nike is a point defense weapon with only moderate lateral range. But the Army has so many Nike batteries at strategic points that their ranges already overlap...
...Roosevelt, in the opinion of the U.S. public, is the world's "most admired" living woman-a distinction she has won nine years out of the past ten.* The runners-up, in the order of their public appeal: U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce, Mamie Eisenhower, Helen Keller, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Madame Chiang Kaishek, Britain's Princess Margaret (a newcomer to the top ten), India's Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby...