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...Dulles . . . concerning Goa? Just think what Dulles said: he ventured openly to declare that the Indian territory of Goa must belong to Portugal merely because the Portuguese invaders captured it 400 years ago. In connection with this the Indian press recalled quite justly that 250 years ago the present-day United States was a colony of Britain, and that if one follows his line of thought, then Dulles should consider himself to be a subject of Her Royal Majesty" (laughter, applause...
...program will function primarily in the School's Department of Nutrition and will be under the direction of Dr. Frederick J. Stare, the Department's head. "One of our main problems of present-day scientific investigation," said Dean Snyder, "is that most of our research funds are awarded on an annual basis. This makes it very difficult to develop long-range programs or to keep scientists of high ability on our staff...
Turbine Auto. General Motors Corp. has built a four-passenger successor to its experimental gas-turbine car, the Firebird. The Firebird II's engine, said President Harlow Curtice, "gives promise of being able to operate with substantially the same economy as present-day automotive piston engines." Instead of wasting the tremendous blast of heat that comes out of the back of the engine, the Firebird recaptures about 80% of it by means of a heat exchanger, uses it to raise the temperature of intake air and thus improve combustion. G.M. does not plan to produce the titanium-bodied Firebird...
Hypersonic Tunnels. Present-day aircraft and missiles grew out of wind tunnels that are comparatively small or slow. To design the missiles of the future, whose speed will be respectable on the astronomical scale, requires wind tunnels of a new order of size and speed. A group of these monsters, whose jointed shells look a little like primitive mollusks, is nearing completion at Arnold Engineering Development Center, at Tullahoma...
...Cops in a typical chase, W. C. Fields as a dentist searching for a patient's mouth in his beard, and Bing Crosby with a full head of hair. Sound effects have been dubbed in expertly, and the old-timers are consistently hilarious. As a matter of fact, the present-day Steve Allen is plainly overwhelmed. His comic narration serves mainly to illustrate how much the art of slapstick has declined in the past two decades...