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Looking every inch the dowager, aging (43) Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton and her sixth husband, ex-Tennistar Baron Gottfried von Cramm, turned out for a France v. West Germany tennis match, a regional Davis Cup competition in Duisburg, West Germany. Despite gossip that No. 6 is also bound for the rocks, unsmiling Barbara appeared to be neither rollicking nor rifting with jobless Von Cramm...
...warned Ike: "The goals we have set for ourselves have not been reached. But progress has been made ... we know that these goals are not achieved all at once. Mankind moves forward by little steps ... if we never lose sight of that goal and every step takes us one inch closer to it, then that is progress. We are carrying a torch. We are carrying a fire. We are not carrying ashes...
...continued for seven days, with Charlie Wilson sitting in on its final deliberations. In the eyes of the colonels, Taylor failed in his mission. The Joint Chiefs decided that Key West needed no sweeping revision, i.e., that technological developments could take their course. The Army did not gain an inch...
...Sloan-Kettering Institute and Ohio State University's College of Medicine. Their researchers will inject cancer cells just under the skin (not into the bloodstream) of a volunteer's forearms. After two weeks, they will cut out one injection site (leaving a hairline wound about half an inch long). The second will be left and studied. It is expected that if there is any growth, it will be only at the injection site, and it will be cut out as soon as detected...
...Baltimore, as 22 passengers for Pittsburgh lined up to go aboard, a baggage crew unloading the plane saw pink fluid dripping from a cardboard carton marked in inch-high letters LIVE POLIO VIRUS. The plane was airborne and banking in its turn westward when ground officials got through to Johns Hopkins University's Dr. Manfred M. Mayer (to whom the shipment was consigned). Said Mayer: "It is extremely virulent and dangerous. You must take all precautions at once...