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Still full of faith in its carriers, the Navy announced that the U.S.S. Antietam was in Brooklyn's Naval Shipyard for a million-dollar face-lifting.When the workmen have finished, the rear deck of the Antietam will angle to port so that landing aircraft will no longer head directly toward planes parked at the bow (see diagram...
...Harvard-Dartmouth football game, several men sporting green blazers and self-conscious looks stole through the Yard. At the right moment, they raced up to John Harvard's statute, splashed the Old Puritan's buckled shoes and delicate ankles with white paint, and fled. Minutes later, a crew of workmen from the Department of Buildings and Grounds emerged from the basement of Harvard Hall with the necessary paint-removing facilities, and hastily took off John's white shoes...
...Paris' Palais de Chaillot last week, workmen put the finishing touches on NATO's elaborately furnished, brand-new press conference room. At one end of the well-appointed room rises a stage for briefing officers, flanked by a photographers' gallery, a glass-enclosed television room and simultaneous translation booths so that newsmen would not miss a word of what was said. There is only one trouble. The 160 newsmen regularly covering NATO know from past experience that comparatively little will be said for publication. Reason: NATO and its military arm SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Powers...
...bases, though French Communist papers managed to find out enough to print a map of them. Newsmen were refused information on a new headquarters building, though details of the building's vital "war room" were printed in the Communist papers. They had picked up the information from workmen. The blackout on news has also prevented SHAPE from counteracting propaganda from Moscow. When Malenkov recently took a backhanded slap at SHAPE by saying Russia's armed forces were no bigger than in 1939, NATO officials refused to comment to newsmen. Not until a month later, when the matter...
...holes have been dug between Linden and Holyoke Streets, most of them in front of Claverly Hall. The workmen are tightening joints on a 24 inch gas pipe, which sprung a leak several weeks ago and began to disturb residents of Claverly. A minute trickle of gas was escaping from the feed line into the basement of the dormitory through a conduit...