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...Testifying before the Russell-chaired Armed Services Committee, Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh ("31 Knot") Burke views the House-revised defense reorganization bill from his own bridge, endorses two House changes sharply limiting the Defense Secretary's authority over the services-changes that Commander in Chief Eisenhower had rapped as a "legalized bottleneck" and an "endorsement of duplication and standpattism" (TIME. June...
...Jumbos, who could only muster up six hits of their own during the entire game, took advantage of one of the Crimson's six fielding errors to knot the score with two unearned tallies in the eighth...
...this point the legal tangle begins to look painfully like a hangman's knot. But presto! The tangle turns into a cat's cradle of evidence that whodunit expert Agatha Christie, author of the long-running play on which the picture is based, manipulates with the skill and deft craftsmanship of long experience. The last scene is, as the British say, a basher...
...world's first, will be built for U.S. by Louis Wolfson's New York Shipbuilding Corp. on a bid of $20,908,774. Keel for 587-ft. N.S. (for nuclear ship) Savannah will be laid next year, launching is set for 1959, and in 1960 the 20-knot, 10,190-d.w.t. vessel will start operating as "a floating laboratory to study nuclear power [in] commercial shipping...
...simply can't write 'radiant' or ''beaming' or 'sumptuous' one other" time." One day when the Queen looked exhausted, Reporter Kilgallen reached all the way to "fatigued incandescence." Prince Philip himself summed up the problem sympathetically in a chat with a knot of newsmen at the British embassy garden party. The reporters in the royal wake, he noted, "press and press and work all day and then, when they sit down to write it, find they have nothing .to write about." But with the vigor that Elizabeth admired, they wrote it just...