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...wire services clucked and twittered like village matrons at a sewing circle. Was she or wasn't she? "Spokesmen" and "usually well-informed sources" said she was. Then, from Monaco's palace press service, came the crusher: a "formal and categorical denial" that Princess Grace was expecting a second child. Cause of the tizzy: Prince Rainier, continuing the battle royal with reporters that began before his wedding, censored some deceptively tumescent shots of Grace taken last month aboard the U.S.S. Forrestal...
...Public investigating committees, formed from the people themselves or from their public representatives . . . have always been opposed by groups that seek or have special privileges. The spokesmen of these greedy groups never rest in their opposition to exposure and publicity. That is because special privilege thrives in secrecy and darkness and is destroyed by the rays of pitiless publicity...
...failure of the first Air Force test Atlas gave underdog Army spokesmen new confidence in the bitter interservice fracas on U.S. missile dominance. Against Atlas' crash and the Air Force's bug-ridden 1,500-mile Thor missile, the Army touted its own relatively successful 1,500-mile Jupiter (TIME, June 10) and the new low-level-surf ace-to-air Hawk, made its boldest pitch yet for operational control of intermediate-range missilery (1,500 miles) now assigned to the Air Force...
...less enthusiastic. But the enthusiasm did not seem to reach the Vatican. The cardinal was met only by minor dignitaries; it was announced that the red hat would be handed over without ceremony and that the Pope would not be able to see his visitor until this week. Vatican spokesmen explained that the cardinal needed rest after his journey and His Holiness was unusually busy-in fact, he had a longstanding appointment with Rome's fire brigade...
Plans are not yet final, spokesmen for the group emphasized last night, since no contracts have been signed and no theatre has been selected. The pressure of time, however, makes it necessary that major decisions be reached within a week...