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Nominated to replace Thomas as the Navy's new civilian helmsman was Under Secretary Thomas S. (for Sovereign) Gates Jr., 50, Philadelphia investment banker (Drexel & Co.) and Main Liner. Lanky (6 ft. 2 in., 190 Ibs.) Tom Gates, son of a onetime president of the University of Pennsylvania, won two Bronze Star citations as a World War II intelligence officer, left active duty with the rank of commander. Appointed Navy Under Secretary three years ago, he made a name as a quiet, hard-working administrator and top assistant to Secretary Thomas. By boosting Gates to the Secretary...
...name, all along. Screaming black crows still challenge packs of vicious dogs for riparian rights to the uncollected garbage strewn in Rangoon's streets. Ragged human beings fight each other for the trickle of water left after rebels destroyed the city's chief water main for the 18th time in nine years. Corruption still runs rampant in the ranks of U Nu's own governing party, the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, while countless vague insurgent groups roam the hills and even the streets of Burma's cities. In many places law and order...
...Main fact to emerge is that the shock treatment of the past abstract expressionist decade is giving way to gentler, more lyric works, with a pronounced shift back toward nature. But with this shift the artists are still clinging tenaciously to most of the impassioned painting discoveries and new-found techniques of the older abstractionists. Second and less heartening conclusion is that the horde of painters spawned by the G.I. bill and flourishing art schools has served mainly to swell the ranks of the second-raters, produced only a handful of individual talents...
...used tear gas and fired in the air today to break up a demonstration by thousands of Arabs demanding return of Egyptian administration to the Gaza Strip. U.N. headquarters announced several demonstration leaders were arrested after the U.N. soldiers were stoned as they drove the crowd down Gaza's main street...
These sprints must be termed a tossup, and should provide the main excitement of the meet, perhaps even a world record. Against Brown last week, Dyer turned in a 49.4 second 100, which is better than any Eli clocking this season, and only 0.5 seconds off the world record...