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...Force Chief of Staff Nathan Farragut Twining officially approved a summer and tropical uniform: "silver-tan" cotton twill Bermuda-length shorts, long socks, short-sleeved shirts, belted bush jackets and pith helmets. The new uniform will not be available in a post exchange until this fall, will not be issued to recruits until next July, and will not be worn throughout the Air Force until 1959. For the time being, no one will be allowed to wear shorts off-base. Explained an Air Force officer, "We have to get used to looking at our knees, and that's going...
Married. George Jean Nathan, 73, dean of Broadway drama critics, renowned as one of the century's most entrenched and articulate bachelors ("Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a particular brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go to work in the brewery"); and Julie Haydon, 45, wraithlike stage actress; after an 18-year courtship, a nine-year engagement; aboard the cruise liner Santa Rosa in Caribbean waters...
...name of the United Nations, Hammarskjold last winter journeyed to Peking to plead on behalf of humanity for the freedom of Americans held captive by the Red Chinese. His mission was a success, but Hammarskjold, characteristically, claimed no credit. The Pentagon sent Air Force Chief of Staff General Nathan F. Twining to thank him personally for the release of the first four flyers (TIME. June...
...Washington last March, District Court Judge Henry A. Schweinhaut ordered the State Department to give Dr. Nathan "a prompt and appropriate hearing." State filed a petition asking the court to review the whole case. Last fortnight Judge Schweinhaut criticized State for "dillydallying delaying tactics," and ordered that Nathan's passport be delivered "forthwith." State responded by taking the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals, which stayed Judge Schweinhaut's order but ruled that Dr. Nathan must have a "quasi-judicial hearing" within five days; if State continued to withhold the Nathan passport, it would be compelled...
...this point, rather than go through with the hearing, the State Department decided to grant Dr. Nathan his passport, asserting nonetheless that "the issuance of passports is a discretionary executive function." For Otto Nathan, getting ready for his trip to Switzerland, the outcome was clear and encouraging. "The State Department's action in issuing a passport to me," he said, "vindicates the fundamental right of every American citizen to travel...