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Biology Student Jon Lindbergh, 20, second son of Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, docked at Hoboken, N.J., sporting a stubby beard. Jon was ship's biologist during the 87-day oceanographic cruise of the tug Kevin Moran, which scoured the Atlantic from New England to the Azores, covering 10,000 miles. Prize discovery, according to Columbia Geologist W. Maurice Ewing, head of the expedition, was a mysterious submarine canyon, 250-300 ft. deep, winding 800 miles across the mid-ocean floor three miles below the surface...
...bears the largest share of the responsibility for the strike is Lovett's boss. Seven months ago, when the steel strike was imminent, Harry Truman felt the tug of all the complex influences which have grown out of organized labor's long kinship with the Democratic Party. He reacted instinctively - i.e., with reckless political partisanship. He abandoned Government's position of impartiality to rush to the side of labor, and in so doing, he tumbled into a constitutional crisis. He displayed an uncanny talent for demanding negotiations when they had no chance to succeed, for upsetting negotiations...
...presidential year the Pennsylvania specimen under closest study is John Fine. To understand him it is necessary to recall the fabulous political background from which he comes. The ghosts of long-dead leaders still stalk Pennsylvania politics. Alignments formed long ago still operate, and the forces that pull and tug at John Fine today were pulling and tugging at John Fine's predecessors when Bob Taft's father was in the White House and Dwight Eisenhower was a youngster in Abilene...
Sixty miles off Aden, Skipper Jafrate's dilemma ended. A hurrying tug drew alongside, bearing a representative of Owner Rizzi. The Rose Mary obediently turned and headed for Aden. The British-trained police came aboard, sealed the tanks containing 780 tons of oil, and an Aden court injunction backed them...
This situation has produced an economic tug-of-war between the South and New England. One of the chief indications of this, Harris states, is that the last 20 years per capita income in the South has risen two-and-one-quarter times as much in New England and population has increased along with...