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...private Ross realm embraces a minuscule archipelago (a score or more coral islets), lying in the vastness of the Indian Ocean midway between Australia and Ceylon. The Cocos Islands have belonged to the Ross dynasty ever since John Clunies-Ross I, Scottish skipper of an East Indiaman, settled there with his family in 1827. The Rosses are absolute rulers of their coconut-growing Malay subjects. By royal fiat the Cocos Islands positively admit no immigrants or ever re-admit emigrants...
...crew of 25, many of them veterans of the Pacific war, man her. Among the veterans: indestructible Captain Dixie Kiefer, one of the Navy's top carrier skippers; he was severely wounded when the carrier Yorktown sank in the Battle of Midway, was seen commanding a carrier in the brilliant documentary movie The Fighting Lady and was wounded again this year in battle...
Then came the details, dictated slowly and carefully. Dark-haired, alert, Brooklyn-born Edward Kennedy, 39, chief of A.P. war coverage in Europe, had the scoop of a lifetime. Midway in his story, the telephone connection faded...
Meanwhile, to finish its current job. the Navy is adding 308 combat ships to its present fleet, wants to lay down 640,000 tons more. Navy plans for the immediate future include five 45,000-ton carriers of the Midway class, to be finished in 1948. Within the next twelve months it wants to order 19,140 more combat planes. Said Admiral Ernest King in explanation: "We dare not plan to fire our last bullet on the day of victory...
Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov waved a grey fedora and smiled when he stepped from a U.S. Army plane at Washington's airport this week. Greeted by Edward R. Stettinius Jr., Mr. Molotov kept on smiling and stared at a point midway between the Secretary of State's chin and navel. Posing later with Stettinius, Anthony Eden, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr and Ambassadors Harriman and Gromyko, the Foreign Commissar stared at nothing in particular (see cut}. Mr. Molotov's companions regarded this as encouraging...