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Between ice in and ice out, Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway Authority turned its efforts to remedying a problem that marred the waterway's inaugural season last year. Big seagoing vessels had such high wind-catching bows and their crews were so inexperienced in the narrow locks and channels that there were 76 accidents along the 27½ mile Welland Canal between Lakes Ontario and Erie. The authority spent $7,500,000 on new mooring walls and fender booms for the Welland, ordered all ships to carry special landing booms, stern anchors and winches. The equipment is sure...
Such trips to the jewel box still have not solved the long-range Hearst financial problem. Rather, the sales have merely raised an anxious question in Hearst city rooms across the U.S.: Who's next? A few of the remaining 13 Hearst papers, e.g., the San Antonio Light (circ. 107,483) and the Albany Times-Union (circ. 67,629) still look strong. But even the San Francisco Examiner, Hearst's first paper, which proclaims itself "the monarch of the dailies," faces serious challenge as the city's largest newspaper. In the last ten years, while the Examiner...
...Embarrassing Central. The seeds of the problem were sown in 1939, when Methodists rejoiced in the completion of a long march to reunion after the split of the Civil War. Three separate churches -the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and the Methodist Protestant Church-united in a single body made up of six "jurisdictions." Five of them are geographical; the sixth cuts across regional lines, is made up of 367,000 Negroes all over the U.S. At the time, this "Central Jurisdiction" seemed a happy solution, giving Southerners their segregation and Negroes a greater proportion of church...
...confession ("I was deeply involved in a deception"). Van Doren exposed not only the quiz fakes but the underlying shoddiness of the TV industry, started an ostentatious if temporary move toward purity. Susskind, who emerged again as the season's most prolific producer, demonstrated that the most important problem- more important than quizzes, payola and canned laughter-is good programing...
Despite all the heady talk about sending men into space in the not too distant future, many a practical problem remains far from solution. One of the most formidable : protecting space travelers from the deadly radiation that will swarm about them...