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Norstad's proposal was an outgrowth of the U.S.-United Kingdom agreement at Bermuda last March, in which the U.S. promised to provide Britain with IRBMs (but without nuclear warheads*), to replace the firepower of its dwindling military manpower. It will be placed before the December meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Paris...
...debunked the latest outgrowth of Sputnikery--"flying-sauceritis," but deferred to Dr. Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College Observatory for an authoritative attack on the latest flying saucer scare...
Gallery Owner Cordier's show was an odd outgrowth of last summer's Moscow Youth Festival. Traveling in Russia at the time of the festival, Cordier was approached by a French-speaking intermediary who gave him the paintings and volunteered the information that the painter was the 27-year-old son of a Soviet functionary, a resident of Leningrad. Cordier smuggled the canvases out in a yard-wide roll of cotton cloth. While the young painter might well have had access to foreign art magazines, Cordier feels the work is too "naive" and violently experimental to suggest that...
Disposable Clothing. Kimberly-Clark Corp., maker of Kleenex, is commercially producing a new material designed for inexpensive disposable paper clothing. An outgrowth of the search for a stronger disposable handkerchief, Kimberly-Clark's Kaycel consists of cellulose with a reinforcing webbing of thread, is already being used for disposable laboratory coats and coveralls. Other uses: throwaway raincoats, aprons, skirts and industrial caps, which may sell for less than the cost of laundering or cleaning a regular cloth...
...guilty to "receiving and obtaining" U.S. defense secrets (TIME, April 22). The plea got them out of a tougher charge of conspiring to transmit defense secrets to Soviet agents, and in return it seemed certain that the Sobles had agreed to tell their story. Last week, as a direct outgrowth of secret Soble testimony, a federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted two more Americans as members of the ever-widening Soble ring. The two: onetime U.S. Army Intelligence Officer George Zlatovski, 47, and his wife Jane, 45, a wartime employee of the secret Office of Strategic Services...