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...Pericles. Human relations -the art of getting along with the people who work beside you and with those who live thousands of miles away-does not change . . . But the age of nuclear energy, in its industrial and economic aspects, will likely bear no more resemblance to the age of steam than a jet-powered plane to an old-fashioned box kite...
...budget does not include steam heat (which comes from the Old State Building across the street), food (which is paid for by the President out of a $40,000 accountable expense allowance), office staff, ushers or personnel who work for other departments, e.g., the Treasury's Secret Service men and White House police, the Pentagon's soldiers who drive White House cars. Chief White House Usher Howell Crim showed Congressmen that he keeps a taut budget: last year he came out with $41 to spare...
Below decks, the situation was hideous. Buttoned up for battle, the LSMR became as breathless as a steam room. Temperatures often hit 140°, posing a serious hazard of debilitation among the crew and a downright perilous situation in the magazines. Sailors slept face to foot in cramped, fetid racks of three, and life was a reasonable approximation of a Roman galley. But all that has changed. Last week, on the fir-fringed shore of Puget Sound, the Navy proudly unveiled the IFS- I (Inshore Fire Support Ship), a ship that combines all the striking power of its ancestor...
...chow line is a "gedunk" soda fountain. The gleaming galley has most of the comforts of modern living, including an electric mixer, a potato peeler, a dishwasher, and a garbage grinder that should frustrate gulls and porpoises. Elsewhere on the ship are a 15-lb. washing machine and a steam dryer and presser...
...Still airsick from his flight to England, Laszlo Tabori, 24, ex-private in the Hungarian army, became the third man in history to crack the four-minute mile. On the rain-softened track at London's White City Stadium, Tabori turned on the steam in the last 300 yards and finished in 3:59. Just .8 second behind, fast enough to get under the four-minute barrier, pounded Britain's Three-Mile Champion Chris Chataway in a virtual dead heat with Half-Mile Champion Brian Hewson...