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...Norwegian and Barents seas. Cruising within 1,200-mile range of Soviet targets from Moscow to Omsk (see map), George Washington will be joined by her sister ship, Patrick Henry, within two months. With their total of 32 missiles, the two ships will of themselves fill any known present-day missile gap-a pair of mobile weapons adding devastating power to U.S. defensive force...
...bars and bar girls on every corner, big dance halls, and at Typhoon Shelter, prostitutes perched on the deck of sampans call their wares to passing sailors along the quay. But Hong Kong night life is hardly wild in the old Shanghai tradition and barely compares with that of present-day Tokyo or Manila...
...musical world. Singers and other soloists of course know better, and so last week did the audiences flocking to hear Soprano Victoria de Los Angeles launch a German recital tour. At the piano behind her was one of the most gifted and certainly the most eloquent of present-day accompanists, England's Gerald Moore, who says: "The accompanist who 'follows' but does not anticipate is a dull, pedestrian sort of fellow, without electricity, a fallen arch in the march of time...
...abundant in middlebrow historiography is still decidedly fertile. One longish quotation will suffice: "The turning point in our culture was the Civil War, whose aftermath destroyed the New England Tradition almost as completely as the October Revolution broke the continuity of Russian culture. (Certain disturbing similarities between present-day America and Soviet Russian culture and society may be partly due to these seismic breaks, much more drastic than anything in European History, including the French Revolution.) The New England Culture was simply pushed aside by history, dwindling to provincial gentility...
...Last Word. Precise standards of measurement are a present-day perplexity. On a laboratory wall in the U.S. Bureau of Standards hangs a blow-up of a 16th century woodcut showing 16 men lined up heel to toe to define the rute, an old German measure of length related to the English rod. That was fine for the 1500s. But since then, each advance in technology has required better measurements. The standard meter bar, adopted by 28 nations, including the U.S.. in 1875, was considered the last word. Used with elaborate comparing devices, it could measure with an accuracy...