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Missing and given up for lost after an intensive six-day search last week was a Strategic Air Command RB-47E, a reconnaissance version of the B-47 jet bomber, and its six-man crew. Based in Britain, the plane, carrying a flock of cameras and a cabin full of electronic equipment, had sped north and east over Arctic waters on a mission that would have taken it into the Barents Sea 100 miles west of the Soviet island of Novaya Zemlya...
...Trio by themselves now bring in 12% of Capitol's annual sales, have surpassed Capitol's onetime Top Pop Banana Frank Sinatra. Scarcely out of college, Kingston's Nick Reynolds, Dave Guard and Bob Shane are making some $10,000 a week, can pick up a six-day fee of $25,000 any time they can conquer their distaste for Las Vegas-"we prefer a less Sodom-and-Gomorrah-type scene...
...Strength. This week Ike, tanned and relaxed from a six-day golfing stopover in Hawaii, flew back to Washington. He had sent word ahead that he wanted no big welcoming. Nonetheless, upwards of 200 greeters were at the airport. "How was your trip, Mr. President?" asked a newsman. "Pretty good," said...
...race was a six-day nightmare of groping through fog, hunting for the flicker of a breeze, and battling howling gales of 60 knots that heeled over the big ocean racers, ripped sails, snapped rudders, and forced sailors to lash themselves to their craft. But fair weather or foul, the short, stubby yawl out of Annapolis was the master of the Atlantic, clipping off miles with the regularity of an ocean liner. When the fleet of 135 boats finished the 635-mile thrash from Newport to Bermuda last week, the overall winner, for an unprecedented third straight time, was Finisterre...
...control only of the account books. And last week, for a reported $5,000,000 cash, the Hearst heirs sold the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph (circ. 174,343), which has been losing money at an appalling $3,000,000 annual clip, to the independent Post-Gazette (circ. 272,797). A six-day morning paper, the Post-Gazette will publish mornings, evenings and Sundays as the Post-Gazette & Sun-Telegraph...