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...time the swimmer was a sedate family man, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey George C. McGhee, who took along his wife, his private secretary, his children (Marcia, 12, and George, 10), and a visiting U.S. Senator, Russell B. Long of Louisiana. It was Senator Long's idea on the spur of the moment to fulfill a lifetime's ambition by swimming from Europe to Asia, and the McGhees picked it up with enthusiasm. Another Senator, Wayne Morse of Oregon, cheered the swimmers on from a motorboat. Led most of the way by the powerful Texas-born ambassador, Long took...
...wedding of one of Spyros' Greek friends. Then we drove to Newark for the funeral of a second one. Between times we stopped off at half a dozen Greek restaurants, in each of which Spyros gave a banquet for a swarm of other friends, assembled on the spur of the moment. We got to Rye all right, but not until late the next afternoon...
...Pratt & Whitney, which with other jet engine producers has been experimenting with the metal for three years. P. & W. agreed to use titanium in the J57 engines for the B-52 (TIME, Aug. 4). The Pentagon hopes such moves will multiply the uses of titanium in a hurry, thus spur production and chop its cost per pound...
...that night, the banished filed resignedly out the Black Palace's back gate. Each got 20 pesos, three packs of cigarettes and a packet of food, then climbed into a guarded boxcar drawn up on a spur. At Manzanillo, 600 dark miles later, the convicts would embark in a troopship headed up the coast. After that, for unending years, life for them will be only the salt and henequen of the Three Marys...
...fortunes. Now that the artist has passed into history, the hunt is on again for signed, original Hitlers. He himself remembered having painted 300 pictures, but got back only 50 of them. Last week German dealers were scrabbling for the 250 paintings that may theoretically remain. Mainly to spur search, some of them were encouraging the rumor that a first-class Hitler might bring as much...