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...food out on the porch"-"The last place," noted Smith, "to put food when there's danger of radiation." And Chief Reporter Alex Kendrick indicted in pictures the nation's educational deficiencies when he visited Alhambra (Calif.) High School and found students taking a snap course called "coed-cooking." Asked Kendrick of one coed-cook, a boy who hoped to become an engineer: "How are you going to apply this to a career as a scientist?" Said the would-be American technician of the Space Age: "Say in three years or so, I will...
...year's record. The Commerce Department, in its annual survey of the nation's major industries, found "moderate optimism." Though it conceded that production declines are in store for autos, steel, machine tools and railway cars, it predicted that some of 1957's softer industries will snap back. Said the report: lumbermen should enjoy "a somewhat better year," copper and aluminum sales should prove stronger, and sales of agricultural equipment "should be up between...
...alternative is cooperating with Batista in the election that he has set for June1. To this idea, rebels of every coloring snap one answer: "We will not deal with a gangster for our country." They will stick with Castro, who may become the brilliant liberator that his young followers see, or only, as one older rebel worried last week, "a man on horseback." It was not lost on thoughtful Cubans last week that Colonel Fermin Cowley, murdered by the rebels and mourned by Batista, was an idealistic young rebel himself 25 years...
Navy Quarterback Tom Forrestal had a helmet full of tricks. Crouched behind his center, he kept Army off balance with continuous long counts while he twisted his head and acted as if he were casually counting the house. Then a quick switch to a quick snap would send him scampering around end on a run-pass option play. Sometimes he flubbed passes when the wet ball skidded off his fingers, but always, when he needed help, he had the most devastating weapon on the field: Navy's rapid little (5 ft. 10 in., 176 Ibs.) captain. Ned Oldham...
What gives Look Homeward, Angel a vitality laced with truth is how much the Gants seem an actual family, at once riveted and riven-far more than Eugene's romance with a boarder (Frances Hyland) seems an authentic love affair. The long-borne inner tensions snap when at last Eugene turns on his mother-hair-raisingly in Anthony Perkins' performance-for the way she has used and fettered her children...