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...milk truck): hornrimmed, wealthy State Senator Malcolm Stevenson Forbes. 38, who bucked the Republican organization to win the primary, is working even harder to beat Bob Meyner. Listening to the engines roar last week, New Jersey sensed that the red, white and blue milk truck was rapidly closing the gap...
...Many Can Play? Thorneycroft plainly indicated that he thought the next step was up to the U.S. In the first six months of this year, U.S. exports to the sterling area exceeded imports by $396 million, and that hardy old bogey, the dollar gap, was once again casting its specter over Europe. (Even the Germans have an unfavorable balance of trade with the U.S.) At this week's International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington, Thorneycroft and other European delegates will pose anew the old question: How can Europe play in the poker game of international finance and trade when...
...fired on by Orange surface raider. Inchcliffe Castle." With that alert from a famed but fictitious merchant vessel,* simulated hell broke loose in the North Atlantic. Out to punish the "aggressors," a six-nation Blue fleet totaling nearly 160 fighting ships began steaming toward Norway. In the Iceland-Faeroes gap, 36 Orange submarines, including the atom-powered 'Nautilus, lay in wait. The U.S. destroyer Charles R. Ware was "sunk"; a "torpedo" slowed down the carrier U.S.S. Intrepid, and H.M.S. Ark Royal had a hot time beating off the assaults of Britain-based Valiant jet bombers. But by early afternoon...
...pointedly described Murrow as his friend. Carl Sandburg calls him a poet. He is a longtime friend-at-the-bar (Scotch, a little water, no ice) of Sir Winston Churchill. Interviewer Murrow is often more celebrated than the celebrities on Person to Person, sometimes must work to bridge the gap. When Rocky Graziano appeared, he urged the prizefighter to call him Ed. Replied Graziano on the air: "Oh no, Mr. Murrow, I can't do that...
...gap left in news-in-depth reporting when See It Now abandoned its weekly schedule of half-hour shows two years ago for monthly hour-long shows, all three networks have tried to use something of its approach. Though such programs as NBC's Outlook, CBS's World News Roundup, ABC's Open Hearing are often well done, they suffer from a lack of See It Now's huge budget, its lavish shooting, its long experience. They also lack Edward R. Murrow...