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With a sigh of relief, the U.S. aircraft industry learned last week that the Defense Department would pay its bills after all. To 28 major airframe and missile contractors, Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy sent a telegram rescinding the harsh 25% reduction in progress payment on contracts that recently threw manufacturers into a tail spin (TIME, Oct. 28). In its place, the Defense Department announced a new, less rigid series of payment "targets," under which the planemakers would get at least 80%, and possibly 90%, of their costs for work in progress...
...Since Mozart." In Forbidden Childhood (written with New York World-Telegram and Sun Music Critic Louis Biancolli), Ruth Slenczynska recalls how her father cursed her, kept her hungry and beat her into being a genius. Nine hours a day, seven days a week, she sat practicing in her slip at the keyboard, never wearing a dress because the sweat would have ruined it. Her mother's protests were useless. In all things the terrified child obeyed the man who, after saving her from drowning, told her: "I just saved your life. Your life belongs to me and me alone...
...just before 8 a.m., noticed that "there's a cold wind blowing up." There was indeed: the reports from Brownell began flooding in. The mob had not dispersed. Shoving and shouting outside Central High School, it refrained from violence only because the Negro children did not appear. A telegram came from Little Rock's Mayor Mann: the situation was beyond the control of local authorities. Then President Eisenhower signed the order that sent the Screaming Eagles to Little Rock...
...forces could hardly have defeated the Arab armies in the Palestine war without the arms which Soviet-satellite Czechoslovakia sold them. Moscow and Washington tumbled over each other to be the first to recognize the new state the day it proclaimed itself a nation (the U.S. won), and the telegram of congratulations that Israel's Premier Ben-Gurion later sent Stalin on his 70th birthday remains one of the least attractive passages in Israel's diplomacy...
...LIFE. To a new job called "News Development Editor," with the task of applying newsmagazine techniques to daily reporting, went Arthur Twining Hadley II, Yale '49, onetime (1950-56) staffer on Newsweek. Other additions: Society Gossipist Charles Ventura, longtime international-set reporter for the New York World-Telegram and Sun; Elmo Wilson's World Poll, first globe-girdling opinion survey to appear in any U.S. daily; Newsweek Staffer Terry Ferrer as education editor...