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...Central Intelligence Agency will shortly swim across the Potomac to immure itself in an immense new building, where the controllers of its anywhere from 8 to 18,000 men and its any where from $1 to $2 billion budget will sit comfortably protected from regulation by the demands of national security. They will not be entirely safe from scrutiny, however, for at last Gen. Maxwell Taylor and Robert Kennedy have been instructed to examine an extremely serious problem that involves the CIA intimately: the organization of the U.S. "paramilitary" effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cuban Invasion Authority | 4/26/1961 | See Source »

...fall, the girls play field hockey and fence in the Quad, sail on the Charles, play tennis at the observatory courts, and swim at the gymnasium next to Agassiz. Also, they are free to enroll in equitation classes and travel to Medford or Jamaica Plain for jumping and riding in the afternoons...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: The Plight of 'Cliffe Athletes | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...striper, second in command on an LST in the peacetime Navy. When not scuttling his principles with a girl reporter (Barbara Eden), Hero Boone consoles a pointy-headed skipper (Dennis O'Keefe) who dearly loves to fish but sadly catches the only thing that seems to swim in the average gagman's Pacific: a brassiere. Whenever he has nothing worse to do, Pat sings a song. The music will not seriously disturb anybody except musicians, but the words ("She's a new destroyer type Every turret round and ripe") are really going to raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pat's First Pat | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

When the great Kariba Dam on the Zambesi River was finished in 1959, every prospect about it was pleasing. Besides generating 1,500,000 kilowatts of power, the dam would create a lake 175 miles long where protein-starved black Rhodesians could catch fish and white Rhodesians could swim and sail. But Kariba Lake had hardly begun to fill with water when a vicious enemy showed its deceptively pretty face. A delicate, floating water fern named Salvinia auriculata appeared in patches that spread with astonishing speed. By last week dense mats, some of them strong enough to support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Little Green Fern | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...wife is Arline-lives in a sprawling, nine-room ranch house in Lincolnwood. a Chicago suburb, with Arline and the three children (two girls, a boy). He has three motorboats. a summer home in the country and a winter home in Florida, and a 30-ft. by 60-ft. swimming pool that he shares with youngsters once a week, hiring a lifeguard to watch over them. He likes to watch himself on one of his six TV sets, greets his twice-weekly taped appearance with "There's the monster." After a scant breakfast. Moran drives to his office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: The Arabian Bazaar | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

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