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Last week, in a refreshing shift of tactics, Northern Rhodesia's legislature passed a law that promised to be a milestone in race relations in southern Africa. In the capital of Lusaka, where in the past Africans were required to make their purchases through hatches at the rear of shops, the legislative council passed a bill barring further racial discrimination in Northern Rhodesia's hotel dining rooms, cafés, movie houses and other public places. Businessmen who can prove they have suffered a heavy loss of white customers by allowing Africans to trade will be compensated...
...captain's cabin of the U.S.S. Observation Island off Cape Canaveral one afternoon, when an exultant Rear Admiral William Raborn Jr. congratulated his skippers on the first successful firing of a Polaris missile from a submerged submarine, only one newsman was present. He was Miami Bureau Chief William Shelton, one of only two reporters who have covered every major missile shot in the Cape's history...
Some 40 ft. below the roiling water, a grinning redhead, wearing the two stars of a rear admiral, thrust his way through the crowded companionway of the Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine George Washington and clapped her skipper, Commander James Osborn, on the back. Then, just to prove it was all routine, Rear Admiral William Raborn Jr., boss of the Navy's Polaris project, gave orders to get ready for a second shot before a proud succinct message was sent to President Eisenhower in Newport: "Polaris, from out of the deep to target. Perfect." In a second message to Admiral...
...Navy did not hesitate, nor did it follow the example of other services and call in civilian industry to run its program. Chief of Naval Operations Burke issued orders to Rear Admiral William Francis Raborn Jr., 55, a bluff, barrel-chested navigator who had never seen the sea before he got to Annapolis with the class of 1928. Burke gave Raborn orders to proceed with "all possible haste" to develop a fleet ballistic missile. He was authorized to set up a task force called, simply, Special Projects, which would cut across all the Navy's cherished bureaus. His work...
Along with his orders, Red Raborn got a letter, a blunt, forceful document which was a rarity in the annals of the Navy, signed by the CNO himself. "If Rear Admiral Raborn runs into any difficulty with which I can help," wrote Admiral Burke, "I will want to know about it at once, along with his recommended course of action ... If more money is needed, we will get it. If he needs more people, those people will be ordered in. If there is anything that slows this project up beyond the capacity of the Navy and the department, we will...