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...display has also been rare at the Globe, which languished for years under the flabby aim to be a paper "that would enter the homes as a kindly, helpful friend of the family." Under the prod of its new editor, Tom Winship, 45, the Globe has begun to shuck that please-'em-all philosophy. Ads have been dropped from the front page, almost every big syndicated columnist except Walter Lippmann has been signed on, and the new drama and music critics are both caustic and first-class. News stories have become sharper...
Fresh evidence mounts weekly that Russia's new team of bosses wants to shuck the rigid trappings of centralized planning in favor of a more flexible, consumer-oriented supply-and-demand system. Scarcely a day goes by without one or another of Russia's government-controlled newspapers beating the drum for less centralized economic control...
...season when northerners finally shuck "winter sickness" and speak soulfully of the Good Life. Above all, the good life of summer is for the young. Graduating high school students, wearing old-fashioned visored caps, swarm through the cities celebrating their freedom. Stockholm's pimply raggare, teenage rowdies who drive battered U.S. cars, roar up the Kungs-gatan, stop to pick up a nymphet, then roar off again. Mothers and children troop off to cottages beside gleaming lakes and fjords to sail, swim and hike until fall. Except that they usually adjourn to summer palaces, Scandinavia's royal princes...
Once in orbit, the astronauts riding the Gemini's cramped capsule will open a hatch in the heat shield and crawl into the lab, where efficient life-support equipment will let them safely shuck their cumbersome space suits. They will have plenty of room to move around, and by making due allowance for zero gravity, they will be able to perform elaborate and delicate tasks. After several weeks in the lab, they will return to the capsule and close the hatch in the heat shield. After detaching the MOL and leaving it in orbit, they will ignite their retrorockets...
...Riding Polo. Over the next three years, Chairman Wishart will gradually step aside for lean, taciturn James Binger, a onetime lawyer who went into manufacturing because "I wanted to develop my own set of problems to solve." A Yaleman ('38) who plays hard-riding polo on weekends to shuck off the burden of bringing home a full briefcase every night, Binger has already revamped Honeywell's sales approach, placing emphasis on profits rather than on volume. Now he is stepping up international sales (the company has plants in six countries), which so far account for 12% of business...