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...editor to Outer Mongolia for a story about a "dawn redwood." But in 1952 Charles de Young Thieriot, a descendant of the paper's founders and a man convinced that "international news is not what people want to read at breakfast," took control of the Chronicle. As his right-hand man he picked Scott Newhall, lively scion of another leading Bay family. Dipping into Hearst's own bag of tricks, Newhall and Thieriot began converting the Chronicle into a blend of sex, sensation and spice...
...With a novelist's relish, Insider Snow then described one of the unknown battles of wartime Britain: the feud between Sir Henry Tizard (rhymes with lizard), "the best scientific mind that in England has ever applied itself to war," and German-raised F. A. Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell), right-hand science adviser to Winston Churchill. As Snow tells it, the fate of England all but hung on the enmity between these two strong...
...aboard, etc. After a formal hearing, his license was suspended last July by FAA, and Arctic-Pacific was fined $16,000. Chesher appealed and, pending a review, he was free to fly. When rescue workers recovered his body from the wreckage, they found it strapped in the right-hand cockpit seat. Despite the fog, Donald Chesher had apparently turned over the pilot's seat to a less-experienced man: Copilot Howard Perovich, 30 (whose mother and sister-in-law died with him in the crash...
...getting richer. They own more cars per capita than any country in Europe. The Conservatives gamely demanded that both taxes and pensions be slashed. The Liberals could bring themselves to demand only tax cuts; social benefits, they said, should be left untouched. "You can have either left-hand or right-hand traffic in a country," said Socialist Premier Tage Erlander, whose country is the last in continental Europe where traffic still follows the British custom and keeps left. "Whoever insists on driving in the middle of the road will find life riskier than he supposed." Last week in a record...
...Flying from Moscow (where news of his shift had not even been published), Molotov stopped off in Kiev, was recognized by a group of Soviet army officers, who nudged each other but neglected to pay any other recognition to the square-jawed Red who was once Stalin's right-hand...