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HUGE NAVY ORDERS are coming for Lockheed's turboprop Electra. In hot race, it won Navy's nod to be prime land-based antisubmarine plane in jet age. Insiders expect Navy to buy some 100 Electras for about $4,000,000 each over next few years, figure Navy will eventually replace all its 500 Lockheed Neptune antisub fighters with Electras...
There are a good many people in any diverse exhibition, like John Doylan, Michael Pollatzek, David Szanton and Sarah Wheeler, whose work is especially notable but escapes the nod of the most competent jury. At the risk of slighting American traditions their work demands equal recognition. In time we may be able to attract painters of equal energy to the College in greater numbers, and even keep the ones we already have...
...dining hall was crowded and there was apparently no place else to sit so he slipped into the remaining empty chair at a corner table with an apologetic nod. He ate slowly and methodically, first a forkful of potatoes, then a bit of meat, then to string beans and then back to potatoes and start all over...
...hard-riding George Christopher was not about to hang up his hardware. After the fact-finding committee gave Goodie the nod, Christopher unleashed his pistols, accused Knight supporters of circulating literature of "such a low grade" as to be "vulgar and wholly un-American." It was, he said, a case of "bigotry" and "insipid intolerance." The literature included a pamphlet entitled "The ODDyssey of George Christopher," and somehow Christopher took it to be a slur on his Greek ancestry. What it did do was trace Christopher's switches in party registration-from Republican to Progressive to Democratic to Republican...
...match should be close, but Eli Andy Fitch rates the nod on his outstanding record so far this season. But the varsity's Dave Skeels, one of the better lightweights in the league, appears to have the best chance for an upset for the varsity...