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...Newport from the slate-grey North Atlantic, he ordered Gretel to sea for a race against Vim. As small-craft warnings fluttered along the Rhode Island coast, the two boats ran boldly before the 25-knot wind, working up speeds as high as 12 knots, lee rails awash and scant yards of churning ocean separating their glistening hulls. Aboard Vim, Helmsman Archie Robertson braced himself against the cockpit wall and strained to hold the wheel steady. Aboard Gretel, Skipper Jock Sturrock wiped salt spume from his eyes and cursed his broken compass...
Long before opening day, the precariously neutral Finns had warned party planners from Moscow that there was "scant domestic support" for the propaganda jamboree. Besides, the government added, theaters, stadiums and schools needed for festival functions were all under repair and would not be ready in time to accommodate the visitors. But after a little pressure from Moscow on Finnish President Urho K. Kekkonen, Helsinki's Olympic Stadium suddenly became available for the opening session. City officials offered 36 schools; ample television coverage was promised. A Cabinet statement cautioned the heavily anti-Russian country−particularly its youth organizations...
...inches, but Britain's Royal Academy figured that it would sell for $2,800,000. And why not sell it? Leonardo's drawing of Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist would not be much missed−to judge from the scant attention it got in nearly 200 years at the academy, mostly not even on public display. Off to Sotheby's last March went the announcement that the drawing, thought to be the cartoon of Leonardo's similar painting in the Louvre, would be auctioned...
...time the committee hearings ended, the Congressmen had heard plenty of conflicting suggestions on what to do. The most drastic proposal was that businessmen be taxed on changes in their inventory levels; this made scant sense, since every businessman already stands to save money if he can stabilize his inventory. At the other extreme was Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin, who argued that "inventory fluctuation is symptomatic rather than fundamental," hence any attempt to influence inventory policy directly would be pointless...
...recommended building a monitoring system to detect Russian atomic blasts. At the time, most people thought a Russian atom bomb was years away; Strauss had to plead, push, finally offered $1,000,000 out of his own pocket to speed up procurement. A scant four months after the monitoring began, a Russian blast was detected...