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While the Italians leaked their firm decision to a semi-official news agency, the missile they will get, the Army-designed Jupiter, was again proving its bright new reputation for reliability. In a summery twilight test-firing, Jupiter blasted aloft on its tenth successful flight (out of 15 tries, only one blowup), its third flight since Chrysler Corp. started supplying birds off its regular assembly line...
...millionaires or celebrities. She sailed from Liverpool with 1,102 passengers (including 311 Americans) the day before Britain declared war on Nazi Germany, and she had hardly pushed into the Atlantic when Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, commanding the Nazi submarine U-30, got orders to open hostilities. It was twilight, and Lemp thought she was an armed merchant cruiser-legitimate prey...
...rival columnist and procuring a prostitute for another in order to have an item smearing Dallas printed in the papers. Just to make sure, he plants marijuana in Dallas' coat and has him beaten and then arrested by a Hunsecker-owned police officer. Indeed, Sidney walks in "moral twilight," "a cookie full of arsenic...
West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, who regards much of the underground activities as "grownups playing cowboy and Indian." wants the Berlin senate to examine how to get "rid of certain undesirable activities in the twilight zone of political propaganda." The spook business is causing dissatisfaction in East Germany, too, but of a different sort. Dombrowski's boss, Major General Karl Linke, has reportedly been given the boot for letting Dombrowski get away...
...himself says that he cannot understand why people buy his verse ("I don't call it poetry"), and he describes himself as "a passionate observer of the second-rate." Actually, Betjeman observes a great deal more than the second-rate. He has a unique eye for the twilight of changing times, although he is one Englishman who looks neither back in anger nor forward in fear. He is perhaps the sharpest and yet gentlest landscape poet now writing in English, whether he lyrically describes a summer meadow or peers with sane, affectionate exasperation...