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Strategic Waters. In deciding how to employ its carrier, Brazil's navy had been influenced by a little-publicized but increasingly effective U.S. drive aimed at mobilizing the hand-me-down ships of South America's navies. If war should occur, the U.S. Navy's sub hunters will need all the help they can get. During World War II, German U-boats sliced into the shipping lanes, even managed to cut off Brazil's northeast bulge from Rio except by heavy Allied convoy. The new danger is Soviet Russia's fleet...
However, he is "one of 10 or 15 men" being considered for positions within the State Department or executive branch of the government. "There are 10 to 20 sub-cabinet jobs still being discussed," Bundy commented...
...Congo scoop when he reported that Congolese troops were threatening to attack the residence of India's Rajeshwar Dayal, who is U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's personal representative in the Congo. Spotting the story in the august Times of India-one of 200 Indian dailies that sub scribe to P.T.I.-Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru rose in India's Parliament to protest the hostile attitude of the Congolese government toward his countryman. But other Congo hands could find no evidence for Lazarus' sensational story...
Contrary to popular opinion, an agreement to ban atomic testing might not be a "first step towards disarmament," Rochow asserted. Scientists can determine what a weapon will do through "sub-critical experiments" which do not require detonation. Since these experiments use up less fissionable material, countries such as China, with little plutonium, benefit from "testing" in this...
...Dycks and Rubenses, possibly including Rubens' voluptuous Venus with the golden hair (see color). Prince Josef Wenzel, one of the gayest generals in the army of the Empress Maria Theresa, owned so many paintings that, in addition to his main gallery in Vienna, he had to set up sub-galleries in four other castles. The present prince's great-uncle added paintings by Filippino Lippi, Botticelli and Rembrandt Treasures by the Row. Today most of these paintings hang in storage in rows so close together that a person can barely squeeze through. Some paintings lie higgledy-piggledy...