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...problem the Tories under Anthony Eden have not solved is how to give voters a clear distinction between Conservative and Labor policies. "We must emphasize expansion rather than restriction," Butler said. "We have to surf-ride on the industrial revolution, developing nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, speeding the intelligent introduction of automation and extending facilities for technical and scientific training." Openly challenging the might of Britain's trade-union movement, he said: "We should use the authority of the state not to control and harry the individual but to curb the power of states which arise within the state...
Emerging from the Atlantic surf on the New Jersey coast, power-packed Gertrude Ederle, 49, looked as if she could still swim the English Channel, a 35-mile trick that she was the first woman to perform. This week Gertrude was slated to get cheers and a commemorative plaque in the 30th anniversary month of her great triumph over winds, tides and waves...
...ungainly craft with the accuracy of a seaman, the eye of a poet, and a prose that suggests he profitably studied Conrad. His descriptions transform the experiences of the sea from something noted into something experienced; though they sometimes teeter on the brink of preciosity ("A filibuster of surf"), they rarely lose their delicate balance. Sample: "About the ship the sea resounded with fantastic whispers, occasionally erupting against the shivering bows; it moved like a beast asleep...
...transition from carefree vacationer to record-breaking competitor was no romp in the surf. Ever since Carin decided to become a champion she has submitted to an endless grind. In the winter she works out five days a week in the Y.M.-Y.W.C.A. pool near her Ridgewood home. Once a week she travels to Manhattan for professional training at the Women's Swimming Association. When the weather warms up, she spends every day at Ridgewood's outdoor municipal pool, swims a mile morning and evening when the pool is uncrowded. "Afternoons," says Carin, "I put on my plaid...
...Times Square, was America's "Cradle of Aviation." There one rainy dawn in May, 1927, Charles Augustus Lindbergh took off for Paris; within the next 40 days Clarence Chamberlin set out for Berlin and Richard Evelyn Byrd took off for the Continent, landing in the French surf. Roosevelt saw Wiley Post and Harold Gatty fly off in the Winnie Mae one June day in 1931, return eight days, 15 hours, 51 minutes later, having set a new round-the-world mark; seven years later Douglas Corrigan roared away for "California," wound up at Baldonnel Airfield, Dublin, and went down...