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...much Eccles' rude word as the Conservatives' record of providing better living and lower taxes that won by-elections for them last week in the port town of Harwich and in the dock and milling city of Hull in Yorkshire. In both they polled a higher percentage of the total vote than at the 1951 election. In Hull the gain was a solid 3.65%. In 27 by-elections since the general election in 1951 that returned them to power, the Tories have held all their own seats (15) and won one hitherto-safe Labor seat-the first time...
...yellow pennant on the conning tower fluttered gaily. The diminutive Rickover had to strain to get a look, when the Nautilus splashed into the icy Thames and floated away in flotsam from the launching cradle. As four tugs fumed up and nudged her toward a fitting-out dock, the Nautilus rode high in the water (her reactor and other heavy parts have not yet been installed). As she disappeared out of sight of the stands, the sun suddenly disappeared with her and the fog closed in again on Groton...
...clock one afternoon last week, amid the marble columns and bronze grillwork of a onetime bank, the 108 members of the Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party gathered to arraign one of their distinguished members on charges of heresy. Tito himself was in charge. The man in the dock: Comrade Djilas...
...growth was the work of two men with strikingly different personalities. Maxwell Mayhew Upson. now 77 and board chairman, joined the still-wobbly firm in 1907 as secretary and general manager, soon had it on its feet. In 1911, searching for a man to take charge of a tough dock-construction job. he hired an engineering prodigy, who. at 24, had supervised the building of four railroad tunnels under the Hudson River. That was the beginning of a prosperous partnership between Upson and William Vincent McMenimen, who, at 72, is vice-chairman of the board. Each man contributed special gifts...
Standing on a dock edging the black Caroni River one day last week, Venezuela's President Marcos Perez Jimenez pressed a button, started a conveyer belt, and sent baseball-sized chunks of iron ore tumbling into the hold of a Swedish freighter. When the ship was properly "topped off," her hatchcovers were closed and she steamed downstream with the first cargo of ore for the U.S. from the steel-hungry 20th century's greatest ore find, Cerro Bolivar...