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...rugged, crisp-voiced Jim Holloway is the Academy's youngest "supe" in 50 years. As a member of one of the speedup classes at Annapolis during World War I, Holloway graduated in 1918, in time to get in a few licks on a World War I destroyer. During World War II he commanded a destroyer squadron in the North African invasion, bossed the battleship JU.S.S. Iowa in a hit-&-run strike on Japan. But Jim Holloway made even more of a mark as a desk admiral. Besides cooking up the postwar education scheme bearing his name, he helped direct...
Many biologists believe that such mutations are largely responsible for evolution. If so, the human species, and most other species too, may be slated for an evolutionary speedup...
This year's show, called John Paul Jones, closed after 14 performances. Reason: the chorus boys had to return to their classes, which are still on a wartime speedup schedule. The 1946 tour was one of the shortest, but its music was some of the best in the Mask & Wig Club's 58 years...
...harsh realities, President Gouin proposed a harsh program: 1) deflationary budget cuts, 2) wage and price freezing, 3) limits on nationalization, 4) crushing of black markets, 5) speedup of food and other commodity distribution. He also offered a slogan: "Work, produce, organize...
...Constituent Assembly cheered when President de Gaulle outlined his program: in domestic affairs, there will be a speedup of nationalization. First on the list: credit, electric power, insurance. In foreign policy, France stands on her alliance with Russia, seeks similar alliances with her western neighbors, all within the UNO framework...