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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William D. Roberts designed another of his handsomely symmetrical two-level unit sets, complete with the celebrated gallery of ten ancestral portraits...
...years and world Star-class champion in 1930, Knapp, 51, is no stranger to America's Cup races. In the last one, 21 years ago, he crewed aboard Harold Vanderbilt's victorious Ranger. After a slow start, he molded Weatherly's crew into a smooth-working unit, and his boat continues to improve. Vim's Matthews, at 24 the youngest of the skippers, is unsurpassed at beating the competition to the starting line by precious seconds, in last week's trial series trailed only once at the opening gun. But many experts still like Columbia...
...unit that science uses to measure radiation exposure is the rem. It expresses a fixed amount of absorbed energy, corrected for the biological effects of different kinds of radiation. Radiation's vital targets: gonads and bone marrow. From natural sources, the average man is exposed to about one-tenth rem annually. In developed countries, he may also get almost as much extra each year from medical and dental X rays...
...Atomic Energy Commission brasshats formed up before 75 newsmen in the White House conference room. (Not invited and thus snubbed: A-Sub Pioneer Rickover, whose prickly personality is still anathema to some Navy brass.) There the President pinned the Legion of Merit on Commander Anderson, awarded the first Presidential Unit Citation ever given in peacetime to SSN 571-U.S.S. Nautilus...
...copies, Novelist Powell (rhymes with Lowell) is highly regarded in his native Britain. Evelyn Waugh calls The Music of Time more realistic than Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and much funnier. Powell's thesis is that blood is thicker than almost anything; his social unit is the family, not the individual. Says his fictional spokesman: "There is something overpowering, even a trifle sinister about very large families, the individual members of which often possess in excess the characteristics commonly attributed to 'only' children: misanthropy: neurasthenia: an inability to adapt themselves . . . The corporate life of large...