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Beneath the Skin. Visiting newsmen at the Cape last week got their basic information on the missile-beat regulars-the half-dozen Florida missile buffs who call themselves bird watchers and profit from their pastime as year-round string correspondents for wire services, magazines, a few dailies and the TV networks. Though Defense Secretary Wilson has long promised to take newsmen on a chaperoned tour of the test center, about the only outsiders who have been allowed inside the gate have been local politicians. However, the Air Force has not yet restricted picture taking from the nearby public beaches...
...Author Truman (Other Voices, Other Rooms) Capote painted an impressionistic portrait of the Artist as a Young Manic: "I despised school. I played hooky at least twice a week, and once I ran away with a girl who in later life achieved a certain fame. Because she murdered a half-dozen people and was electrocuted at Sing Sing. But there, I'm wandering again. Well, finally, I guess I was around twelve, the principal at the school paid a call on my family, and told them that in his opinion I was 'subnormal.' He thought it would...
...distinguish the crews at a distance, Harvard's president, Charles W. Eliot, bought a half-dozen magenta handkerchiefs which the rowers wore on their heads. In 1875, after considerable dispute, the official Harvard color was changed to crimson...
...that a successful contestant can return week after week, may go on until he wins $256,000. First memory expert to be eligible for the new goal is Rob Strom, ten-year-old Bronx science whiz, who won his first $64,000 with barely a pause over some half-dozen tough questions...
WASHINGTON, March 10--The Navy is heading its nuclear submarine program toward a broad-scale production basis, aiming at an eventual rate of a half-dozen launchings per year. Figures made available by the Navy today show that at least three atomic-powered submersibles are scheduled for completion next year...