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...bitter and continuing argument about the possibility of detecting clandestine bomb tests took a turn last week in favor of the optimists-those scientists who believe a detection network to be feasible. The U.S. Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency issued a four-page booklet stating that "there may be substantially fewer earthquakes that produce signals equivalent to an underground nuclear explosion of given yield than had been expected." All by itself, that brief statement represented quite a switch; the Defense Department has usually favored the attitude that secret Russian underground tests could not be distinguished from natural...
Over the years, the program has had dozens of embryonic celebrities in its cast: young Fibber McGee and Molly, Patti Page, Johnny Desmond, Fran Allison, etc. And people have kept up with McNeill's own family as if he were everybody's first cousin. He has three sons, and each birth was big spot-news on the show...
HEAVEN CAN WAIT! screamed the eight-column headline on the sports page of the Los Angeles Times. ANGELS IN 15T ON 4TH. Then a postscript: AND DODGERS...
...Angels are the second worst fielding team in the league. No Angel batter is hitting .300. The team roster reads like a page from Who's That? Centerfielder Albie Pearson is a 5-ft. 5-in. shortie who hits a golf ball better than a baseball, and sings rock 'n' roll on the side. Star Pitcher Bo ("No Hit") Belinsky is an unreconstructed pool shark. A retread catcher plays leftfield, and the Angels' double-play combination has toiled for a grand total of 16 other clubs. Manager Bill Rigney was sacked by the Giants, and General...
...honorable gentlemen of Japan could hardly be blamed if seen tittering behind their fans last week. On the front page of Tokyo's top financial daily, Nihon Keizai, appeared the startling news that the Kennedy Administration was pleading with Japanese industrialists to build plants in such "underdeveloped" areas as Kansas, North Carolina and New Jersey. "This request by the U.S., hitherto leader of the free world in the development of less advanced countries, came as a surprise to the Japanese Foreign Office," crowed Nihon Keizai...