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Ingenuous newsmen rushed to tell the world Leona's hoked-up Cinderella story: she had scraped together $45 to buy a gown for the Maryland preliminaries, had come West on a one-way ticket, borrowed a gown for the Long Beach judging. When she won the big prize she was down to her last $2. "I'm not manstruck," she said. "I'm not marrying until I'm 26." And then the roof fell in on Leona Gage: the judges learned that she was married...
With that, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Texas' Junior Senator Ralph Yarborough swung into action on Capitol Hill, asked Congress to help in curbing "uncontrolled" oil imports. Said Texan Yarborough: "The situation for our independent producers has become a one-way street leading to oblivion." Johnson announced that he had word that President Eisenhower himself would intervene in the case to curb oil imports "threatening national security...
...Yorktown, losing almost all of his aircraft but scoring three hits and starting fires. At 1245 Yamaguchi threw in his last ten torpedo bombers and six fighters, remnant of Nagumo's force of 250 plus, led by a lieutenant who knew he had only enough fuel for a one-way trip. The result: slaughter for the Japanese planes by U.S. fighters and antiaircraft, but two torpedo hits on Yorktown, enough to cripple her and leave her a mark, two days later, for a Japanese submarine...
SPEEDY "DAN'L WEBSTER," New Haven Railroad's $1,500,000 new light train, which broke down on a trial run (TIME, Jan. 21), is back on the tracks, will make three one-way trips daily between New York and Boston...
...mimeographed his remarks and let the student read them quietly in a library. In any case, the danger of the lecture as a means of pouring out quantities of information which the student tries to blot up by frantic notetaking is apparent. The listener becomes the passive object of one-way communication with a vocal text-book...