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...Nicosia airport, a British field marshal stepped off an R.A.F. Hastings transport, eyed the awaiting refreshments, turned to a cluster of local dignitaries and snapped, "Let's cut the cocktails and go into town." Sir John Harding had taken over as the new governor of Britain's crown colony of Cyprus...
...General Julius Ochs Adler, 62, general manager of the New York Times, president and publisher of the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times; of cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan. A nephew of the late great New York Times Publisher Adolph S. Ochs, Adler won the D.S.C. and Silver Star with Oakleaf Cluster for heroism in World War I. In World War II he was assistant Sixth Infantry Division commander in Australia and New Guinea, after the war became commander of the 77th Division (Reserve...
...carries Paul Stapp. Among men who make a business of dealing with danger, he is a legend. Stapp has won a file full of awards and citations, including the Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster and, last month, the Air Force's Cheney Award for valor and self-sacrifice. He has ridden his roaring rocket sleds 29 times, personal proof that man is still master of the machines he builds. That is almost a faith with Stapp. Says he: "Man is capable of self-reproduction and even of occasional genetic improvements. He is capable of self-repair...
...cluster of reporters stood behind the big off-white barn one afternoon last week and watched while Irvington Roamiss Pear, a purebred Holstein heifer, got a thorough grooming. While they were watching the ceremonious cleanup, a hired man-or what most of the reporters at first took to be a hired man-ambled up to see what was going on. He was dressed in blue slacks, a blue denim sports shirt, white rubber-soled shoes, and a floppy Panama straw hat with its brim set at a rakish angle. In a quick doubletake, the reporters recognized the nation...
Moments after Dwight Eisenhower pinned a third oakleaf cluster on his Distinguished Service Medal, strapping General Matthew B. Ridgway, 60, retiring Army Chief of Staff, was all but cheered by his chic wife "Penny" and crew-cut son Matthew Jr., 6, who proudly inspected his father's newest decoration...