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...first experimental AA rocket regiment in World War II, and later the man who sold his father-in-law, Winston Churchill, on wiping out the German V-2 factory at Peenemünde, Sandys feels that Britain can be made secure only if it takes a bold stride into the rocket age. But his problem is the crushing cost of research development, and he hopes to widen the exchange agreement that he negotiated as Supply Minister with Wilson...
...indoor track season hit its stride, but Laszlo Tabori, the fast Hungarian refugee, lagged far off the pace. Trying the indoor mile for the first time at the Philadelphia Inquirer meet, he ran a slow 4:10.8, finished third behind Boston's George King (4:10.1) and Chicago's Phil Coleman (4:10.7). Next night in Washington, B.C., Tabori switched to the two-mile run, dropped out on the twelfth lap with stomach cramps. The winner: Polish Refugee John Macy (9:02.6), now a student at the University of Houston. Olympic Hurdles Champion Lee Calhoun came back from...
...waiter comes regularly at 8 to serve Knowland his orange juice, eggs, toast and coffee. It is always a working breakfast, once a week with White House Legislative Aide Jerry Persons, other mornings with Cabinet officers or sleepy-eyed Senators. Then, with the giant stride that often forces his companions to a dogtrot, Knowland plunges onward into his day. That day continues even after he arrives home with what Helen Knowland calls his "bulging 20-lb. briefcase." Says she: "He opens that old briefcase, spreads papers all over the place, gets on the telephone, and in minutes the room looks...
...impish Gerard Barnes Lambert, the world is full of youngsters to whom the pre-halitosis world must seem as remote as that of Chaucer's Wife of Bath. Soon, only toothless oldsters will remain to tell of a time when every bridesmaid took her breath in her stride and no man, wanting the truth, went to a child...
...record $5.8 billion outside their country for consumer goods and industrial equipment, running up an import bill that was a full $1 billion higher than the country's export earnings. Such a trade deficit could have been ruinous to a less prosperous country, but Canada took it in stride: the heavy flow of foreign (mostly U.S.) investment offset the drain on gold and dollar reserves. As the year ended, Canada's currency position was so strong that the Canadian dollar rose in value to more than $1.04 U.S., a 23-year high...