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...past sentrylike steel stabiles, shuffled to a nearby creek. Staring at the soft, easy ripples, Calder exclaimed: "Look at those tiny waves, circling, soothing, yet so much alive! People ask me the meaning of a mobile. My answer is 'what is the meaning of this water, of a sunset...
After ten years, eight months and seven days of independence, an Indian last week finally took command of India's navy, which has been operating and fighting under British commanders since 1613. At a sunset ceremony in landlocked New Delhi, Britain's Vice Admiral Sir Stephen Carlill, 55, handed over control of the 41 ships and 8,800 men to Rear Admiral Ram Dass Katari, 46, the first Indian to reach flag rank. Many Indians had complained that the "Indianization" of their navy came too slowly, but the Indian government preferred to wait until its own officers were...
...vicariously with this tired story line, the answer struck last week with the finality of a chord of doom: no -in the case of one queen in particular. The chord rumbled for Lana Turner, the Sweater Girl whose feckless pursuit of happiness became men's-room talk from Sunset Boulevard to Fleet Street, and for her shaken, 14-year-old daughter Cheryl, who stabbed Lana's paramour, Johnny Stompanato (TIME. April 14). Last week a coroner's inquest declared Cheryl's act justifiable homicide, but this decision hardly lessened the sociological impact of a news story...
...York. More than two hours long-winded, the Windjammer splashes into numerous ports of call, catches some fine scenes of native dances and fireworks parties. Other good shots: Cellist Pablo Casals playing a Catalan ballad in a Puerto Rican garden; a panoramic tour of Norwegian fjords; a vibrant Caribbean sunset, gold and red against a serene black sea. The whole thing would have made a great 20-minute short...
Just after sunset one night last week, a flight of U.S. Air Force B-47 jet bombers streaked across the purple Guadarrama Mountains and slid onto Western Europe's longest runway, the new 13,400-ft. strip of the U.S. Strategic Air Commands Torrejon Air Base, 13 miles northeast of Madrid. Looking down on the serried ranks of bombers on the once-empty apron, a U.S. control-tower operator crowed: "Man, are we ever in business...