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...across U.S. headlines, Navy Secretary Charles Thomas appointed a special board to review the decision. While the board pondered and Landy entered Yale Law School, the Air Force and Coast Guard cleared two men involved in similar kin-guilt cases. At length, the special Navy board arrived at a stubborn conclusion: still thumbs down on Landy...
...Demonstrating the spectacular sleight of hand that seems built-in in all Notre Dame quarterbacks, Paul Hornung led the Irish to a 19-0 victory over the stubborn Hoosiers of Indiana...
...businessmen who left the country "as soon as possible." But for businessmen with investments to protect, that was no way out. In any case, it was doubtful that the offer meant peace on the Korean scene; the embattled businessmen were not bucking merely the whim of Korea's stubborn, proud old President Syngman Rhee. They were bucking a tide of nationalism that has swept through Asia. In much of the non-Communist East, many governments are putting pressure on employees of U.S. and other foreign companies to pack up and go back home...
...silicone-coating process that makes cooking utensils adhesion-proof. To be marketed by Omaha's new Selinized Process Co., the coating makes it possible to clean most utensils with a dishcloth. Some deposits come clean when the pan is turned upside down and tapped; more stubborn food remnants can be burned off by putting the coated saucepan back on a hot stove. By early fall the first batch of 7,500 Selinized standard aluminum utensils will be marketed in the Nebraska area at prices about 25% higher than regular utensils...
...Rossana Podesta plays the abandoned Nausicaä with all the sad airs and graces of a bereft princess. In the role of Penelope's leading suitor, Anthony Quinn shows a wily nobility, and young Franco Interlenghi as Ulysses' son gives real substance to his role of a stubborn adolescent. Kirk Douglas is more at home in the acrobatics of his part than in its subtleties, and occasionally seems tempted to reach for a Tommy gun instead of a sword. Yet, like the others, he often responds to Director Mario Camerini's neat combination of archaic flavor...