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Married. Peter Townsend, 45, R.A.F. hero of the Battle of Britain who was prevented from marrying Britain's Princess Margaret because he was a divorced man; and Marie-Luce Jamagne, 20, daughter of a wealthy Belgian tobacco man; in Watermael-Boitsfort, Belgium...
...developer of polio vaccine, Dr. Jonas Salk-Townsend Harris High School, New York City...
...JONES, by Paul Hyde Banner (372 pp.; Scribner; $4.50), brings back the amateurish but pleasantly diverting ex-diplomat who specializes in novels (S.P.Q.R., Excelsior!) about the kind of foreign affairs that set ambassadorial medals ajingle. The latest hero to pop out of Author Bonner's undiplomatic pouch is Townsend Britton, who is on the mossy side of 50; he is tall, athletic and handsome, but his soul bears the thumbprint of his ruthless wife Edith. She forces him to resign as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium because she wants to be a Washington hostess. Eventually, Britton decides that...
...ship west of the Galapagos Islands to experiment with a Japanese technique of fishing for deep-swimming tuna. The scientists were surprised to see the fish lines drifting eastward while their ship was carried westward on the well-known equatorial surface current. The next year the Service's Townsend Cromwell established the reason: a hitherto unsuspected current, deep below the surface current and moving in the opposite direction. Later investigation revealed that the Cromwell Current is a tremendous thing. It is 250 miles wide, at least 3,500 miles long. Three hundred feet below the surface, its high-speed...
...frankly speculative funds (Townsend Growth and Keystone 8-4 funds), which warn the investor that the risks are greater, along with the rewards...