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FIRST NUCLEAR REACTOR for the Air Force is in operation at Convair's Fort Worth plant. While mum on what the reactor is being developed for, Convair is aiming at something besides an atom-powered bomber. All the Air Force will let Convair say is that its engineers "are working toward the adaption of nuclear energy to the development of other weapons systems...
...Western Sandwiches. The "Queen Mum," as New York's British colony calls her, arrived in the U.S. last week smiling and marveling at the sights of New York harbor. At week's end, after a schedule of shopping, sightseeing and partying that would have staggered women half her age, she was still going strong. Everywhere she appeared, she managed to break through the stiff cordon of protocol with her smile, her poise, or her dazzling jewels. On every hand the comment was the same: "Isn't she lovely...
Cold weather recently stopped the official digging, and police are frustrating the free lancers. Spina, the mother lode of the treasure, has not yet been found. Perhaps it lies under the mud not far away. There is a rumor that Professor Arias knows where it is, but is keeping mum. Sophisticates in nearby Ferrara do not believe this. "When Spina is found," they say, "the Comacchiesi will find...
Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay was responsible for the joke. On an Alaskan inspection trip last summer, he found voters bitter about the Republican decision to press for Hawaiian but not for Alaskan statehood. Instead of mum bling weasel words, McKay publicly told statehood advocates that they were too belligerent in their approach to Congress and suggested that they "start acting like ladies and gentlemen." He resented charges that his department was trying to hold on to Alaska as an "empire." "I get sick and tired," he told an Anchorage audience, "of being kicked around...
...peppery pronunciamentos without first clearing them with the proper Red monitors. Confessed loose-lipped Rivera: "I got kicked out for shooting off my mouth." He later even gave haven in his home for two years to Leon Trotsky. Back in the fold again last week, Rivera was strangely mum. In tragic truth, he was tired, in bad health and grieving over the recent death of his wife...