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...Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine George Washington and clapped her skipper, Commander James Osborn, on the back. Then, just to prove it was all routine, Rear Admiral William Raborn Jr., boss of the Navy's Polaris project, gave orders to get ready for a second shot before a proud succinct message was sent to President Eisenhower in Newport: "Polaris, from out of the deep to target. Perfect." In a second message to Admiral Arleigh Burke, chief of naval operations, Red Raborn let go all the pent-up exuberation of a classic achievement: "This new star of peace hoisted a trail...
...Enlightenment. In Phoenix, Ariz., Assistant Fire Chief E. J. Mclndoo turned in a succinct report: "Cause of fire-man searching for gas leak with a match. He found...
...task of good reporting lies not ' merely in the struggle for the gritty word that captures the death of an African rebel in a dusty Congo boulevard, or for the succinct phrase that clarifies the politely vague deliberations of the conference room. More challengingly. the job demands the timely summing-up that gives recent events meaning in the light of what has gone before. By its annual Man of the Year cover story, by CINEMA'S choices of the year's top films, by FOREIGN NEWS'S analysis of the plight of the world...
...side by cherry blossoms and geishas, and on the other by hara-kiri and kamikaze. Readers who suspect that there is more to Japan than this may find out precisely what by opening either of two handsome, informative, reliable and engagingly written books. Living Japan is a succinct introductory, from Zen Buddhism to transistorized radios, by a top U.S. scholar, Donald Keene, associate professor of Japanese at Columbia. Author Keene's book has the edge in the number and beauty of its photographs. But Meeting with Japan is steeped in deeper experience. From 1938 to 1943, Italian-born Anthropologist...
...never cease but that a lot of them are going to be settled by this book. Lieut. Colonel Boatner, onetime instructor of military history at West Point, has arranged 4,000 items in alphabetical order, among them 2,000 brief biographies of notable Civil War figures and scores of succinct action accounts from Gettysburg to mere skirmishes...