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There were famous names among the 104, including daughters of Laurance Rockefeller, Irving Berlin and Howard Cullman, and some who were unknown beyond the limits of Scarsdale and Greenwich (one debutante came all the way from Minneapolis). Most were greeted with a proud, polite pitter-patter of applause from their parents' boxes or tables; others got ovations. When Miss Gary Latimer, who had been dubbed the "No. 1 Glamour Deb" by New York society editors, appeared, it was like the arrival of a movie queen on the 20th Century Limited: a murmur ran through the crowd, flashbulbs popped...
With 8,000 flying hours, he ranks second in Air Force seniority (first: Chief of Staff Twining). A four-star flyer entrusted with one of the nation's most vital commands, he is unpublicized and virtually unknown. But in 36 years of service he has piled up vast all-round experience. He has been a pursuit pilot, a flight instructor, one of the early 6-17 pilots who worked out U.S. long-range bombing techniques. A top technician, he helped to develop retractable landing gear, variable pitch propellers, and a long line of U.S. combat planes. In World...
Fifteen Seconds to Alaska. Reports of every unidentified aircraft spotted over North America flash through the Air Defense network to the blockhouse in Colorado Springs, General Chidlaw's command post. On the great Plexiglas map, from six to a dozen unknown aircraft are being plotted at almost any time; as one is identified by the scrambling fighters, another is reported elsewhere...
Boom on the Clyde. Industrial production is at an alltime high, up 10% in the past two years alone. From John o'Groat's to the Mull of Galloway, unemployment is almost unknown. Glasgow, whose Clyde-side shipyards make it the world's biggest builder of ships, is booming. More important, through energetic promotion Scots have succeeded in diversifying their industry against a new time of trouble; in the past five years, 500 firms have established new factories or made major expansions in Scotland. Where, before, its prosperity was almost wholly dependent on shipyards, foundries and blast...
Italy, of course, has the world's foremost Botticelli experts. When the big news was flashed to Florence, it drew a dry laugh from the city's superintendent of fine arts, Filippo Rossi. "The picture," said Rossi flatly, "is catalogued here as a copy by an unknown student...