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...Green is an English novelist (Odd Man Out; A Flask for the Journey) with a special knack for portraying the terrors of obscure city people. His aim: to steer a middle course between the bloodstained thriller and the bloodless novel of ideas. His latest novel achieves it. Mist on the Waters is a taut telling of a crime of weakness, and of the forces it releases in the lives of its perpetrators...
...Assistant and Under Secretary, Dean Acheson was always a highly competent explainer, advocate and executor of Administration policy. He acted as State's liaison man with Congress. He helped steer such complex and unwieldy vessels as Lend-Lease, UNRRA, the World Bank, the Export-Import Bank through diplomatic shoals. With David Lilienthal he wrote the plan for international control of atomic power which became the basis for U.S. policy...
...missile is no mere pilotless bomber shepherded by a nearby mother plane. According to M.I.T.'s Dr. Karl T. Compton, new chairman of the Research and Development Board, a missile must fly near its target unaccompanied and have some sort of "seeing eye" to recognize the target and steer toward it. Admittedly, this is a large order...
...radar, could send a televised radar map to the satellite. A repeater on the satellite could relay the ever-changing map to the missile's launching place. When the target came into view, control officers, watching the relayed map, could send last-minute instructions, by microwave, and steer the missile down on the target's heart...
...third was "El Rancho," a convertible painted "in the singing thunder of a Mexican Dawn" (brown), and soon to be driven by Cadillac Boss John F. Gordon on his Arizona ranch. It has kip-side suede trim, antiqued silver hardware, steer-head escutcheons on the doorsills, and saddle-stitched pistol holsters on the doors. The fourth "sybaritic specimen" was a sedan in "Caribbean Day Break" (green), which would go to some other G.M. executive...