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H.M.S. Urania, a 1,710-ton World War II destroyer, lay at a Liverpool dock, undergoing conversion that would turn her into a fast, light, submarine-killing frigate. Her steel superstructures were being replaced with aluminum and she was being equipped with Britain's new, secret "Limbo" sub-finder, a sort of electronic bulldog that locates and "locks on" to a submarine until it can be destroyed. One afternoon, when the last work shift left the Urania, the security patrol combed her and found nothing amiss. She was floodlit, and two guards stayed, as usual...
Douglas W. Bryant, administrative assistant to the Library, and Edwin B. Newman, lecturer on Psychology, formed the two-man sub-committee considering the Library's fine system...
...proposed 25 cent a day fine and loss of Widener privileges for overdue book holders has been turned down by a special library sub-committee, Keyes D. Metcalf, Director of the University Library, announced yesterday...
...sub-par UPA cartoon about a horse and an iceman who conquer technological unemployment by going machine age, a Russian travelogue, and a British Information Services film about buses and stately homes round out the program, but add little more than symmetry...
...President, Dwight Eisenhower was asked whether he would appoint Negroes to important positions in the Government. He said he would, whenever he found a man qualified for the job available. Last week he found a man eminently qualified, and made him the first Negro ever appointed to a sub-Cabinet position in the U.S. The appointee: Chicago Attorney J. (for nothing) Ernest Wilkins, 60, who will be Assistant Secretary of Labor for International Affairs, representing the U.S. at international labor conferences...