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...Held, in the first opinion written by Chief Justice Earl Warren, that a longshoreman injured in a shipboard fire at Texas City, Texas, was entitled to damages under a federal workmen's compensation act, although his claim was filed after the deadline. Warren said the law should be construed "liberally...
...biggest television theater (Milton Berle show, etc.). But its income did not keep pace with Manhattan's rising real-estate values. Last week Rockefeller Center's Chairman Laurance Rockefeller pronounced a death sentence on the relatively young building. When NBC's lease expires next May, workmen will tear down the Center's vermilion doors, mahogany walls, its six-ton, 400-bulb chandelier, once the world's biggest. On the theater's site will rise a new $11 million, 19-story office building that will connect with the U.S. Rubber Co. building and bear...
...ready to go back to sea again. After four months (and two battle stars) in Korean waters, the "busiest ship in the fleet" had been in the yard for ten months for an extensive overhaul. Most of her 1,400 officers and men were aboard, and helmeted civilian workmen swarmed over her decks. Officers had just completed the weekly stem-to-stern inspection, had pronounced the "Leading Lady" (the crew's name for the Leyte) shipshape. Then, suddenly, the big ship shook and a dull explosion roared over the yard. It sounded, said Captain Thomas A. Ahroon, "like...
Austria's placid art world was stirred up over a new stained-glass window. When it was first installed three years ago in the Church of the Holy Blood in Graz (pop. 226,453), nobody noticed anything unusual about it. But last month workmen renovating the church spotted two churlish types among the Romans watching...
...with civilian cars and taxis again. Where they suddenly came from, nobody seems to know. Every afternoon Korean businessmen, shabby in their ill-fitting Western suits, gather in places like the Teahouse of the Opening Lotus to discuss Korea's future. In buildings all over the city, shivering workmen sigh with relief as glass windows go in for the first time in three years. By night, streets are alight with candles as Koreans, with small trays mounted on wooden tripods, offer candy, chewing gum, apples and cigarettes. Said one U.S. economist on the scene: 'It looks...