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Power revealed that he plans to live in a house he is building in Palm Springs, seek a job in business, and publish a book called Design for Survival, which he wrote in 1959. Its publication was banned by the Eisenhower Administration at that time on grounds that an officer should not benefit financially from a book related to his official duties. Except that it urged "complete unification" of the armed forces and raised questions about some aspects of U.S. defenses, little has been disclosed about the book. Rated most likely to succeed Power is General Walter Campbell Sweeney...
...Scripps-Howard Reporter Jim Lucas, was published in the form of a memo sent by Lucas to his bosses at the time. The other appeared as a reminiscence by Hearst's Bob Considine. Both portrayed MacArthur as an embittered man who had held the Communists "in the palm of my hand," only to be "betrayed" by "those fools in Washington" and the British government...
...Maldives sound like something that belongs in a salad. Actually, they are an autonomous British protectorate in the middle of the Indian Ocean, consisting of some 2,000 palm-shaded coral islands and reefs, 215 of them inhabited, and they are not quite real. Auld Lang Syne used to be the national anthem,*the Mother Hubbard is the prescribed dress for women, and the primary means of transportation are outriggers and baggalas, which resemble a cross between a Chinese junk and a Spanish galleon. Crime in the Maldives (rhymes with bald wives) is virtually unknown, and once a year most...
Died. Julien Arpels, 79, president of high society's Parisian jewelers Van Cleef & Arpels, Inc., who with his brother Louis took over the business from his father, set up a New York branch in 1940 that outpaced Paris headquarters, expanded to Palm Beach and Caracas marketing such wares as Napoleon's emeralds and a 34.6-carat pink Indian diamond but never, never talking about who bought what or for how much; of a stroke; in Manhattan...
When the American Cancer Society gathered a number of the nation's big-name researchers in Palm Beach Shores last week, the most provocative report came from a hitherto-unknown scientist who is not even a specialist in human cancer. Dr. Olive Stull Davis has cancer, and if her theory is right about how she developed the disease, her own case may provide valuable insight into how some cancers are caused...