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...signing its contracts with the Brattle Holdings Company and Cambridge Productions which own the theatre and stockrooms, felt it had "ended a three-year search for a theatre convenient to the University community...
...June day last year, a group of scholars stood up from their work in a book-cluttered room of the Yale Divinity School to say a short prayer together. It was an important moment for learning and for Protestantism. After 14 years of patient work, their 32-man committee had completed the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the most important English translation of the Scriptures since a slightly larger group of English scholars handed their three-year work to King James...
Colombia's three-year undeclared civil war reached a new pitch of ferocity. Heretofore, most of the fighting had been confined to the countryside, where Conservative troops and police fought pitched battles against "bandits," i.e., Liberal guerrillas. Last week the capital city of Bogotá was torn with strife...
...contract signified White House and Pentagon approval of the Navy's three-year campaign to get started on the revolutionary carrier, a campaign bound up in the argument between Navy and Air Force over the Navy's persistent attempts to edge into the Air Force's field of strategic bombing. In 1948, Navy Captain Hyman Rickover, an engineering officer and atomic specialist working on an atomic submarine design (TIME, Sept. 3, 1951), convinced Navy brass that an atomic carrier was possible too. The Navy held its fire until it had sold the submarine plan to the Joint...
Churchill Down. Leaning partly on security, the P.M. said in essence that the government's stretchout of the original three-year defense program would amount to a cut of between a quarter and a third in original goals. Many of the armaments now scheduled would still be made, but for export to overseas customers rather than for Britain's own defense buildup. "Armaments," he explained, "are, in these uneasy days, bestsellers...