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Died. Eduard Alexander van Beinum, 58, one of the world's outstanding orchestra conductors, who shaped the post-World War II reconstruction of Amsterdam's famed 71-year-old Concertgebouw, transpolar commuter who since 1957 had directed both the Concertgebouw and the Los Angeles Philharmonic; of a heart attack; while rehearsing on the podium in Amsterdam...
...Piece of Ice. For all its scientific, precision-tooled marvels, the Nautilus sometimes developed quirks that only homely ingenuity could resolve. A few months before the '58 transpolar run, a leak "no larger than a human hair" developed in the steam-condenser system. An agonizing search by experts failed to track it down. In a do-it-yourself mood, Commander Anderson had the crew pour 70 quart cans of "Stop Leak," a $1.80-a-can remedy for auto radiator leaks, into the Nautilus condenser system, and it stopped the leak that might eventually have cost the life...
...Basic Instrument Trainer, known to tens of thousands of fledgling pilots as the Blue Box, was standard equipment at every air-training school in the U.S. and Allied countries. Every advance in planes and missiles brought new Link trainers-for jet fighters and bombers, transpolar celestial navigation, and for the Matador, Sparrow and other missiles. Link trainers are now being used to go through dry runs on test firings of space shots. Says Link: "Some of our missile failures were traced to human errors. In the boredom of a countdown, somebody forgot to push a button...
...loans to member banks-in a switch to a tighter-money policy to be extended to all Federal Reserve banks (see BUSINESS). ¶ The defense reorganization bill, pushed through a balky Congress by the Administration, was a solid step toward solving the Pentagon's problems. And the historic transpolar voyages of nuclear submarines Nautilus and Skate were sharp reminders -along with three satellites aloft, and a spectacular series of record performances by U.S. aircraft-that the nation is much farther along in technological progress than it seemed in the flap after Sputnik I. ¶ President Eisenhower's decision...
...high-stakes power and propaganda contest called the cold war, the U.S. piled up one of its biggest weekly scores so far. Capturing men's imaginations round the world, and replying persuasively to Russia's Sputniks, the U.S. Navy's atomic submarine Nautilus completed a historic transpolar voyage under the vast Arctic ice pack, fulfilling in a 20th century way the centuries-old dream of a northern passage from ocean to ocean (see Armed Forces). And in the arena of diplomacy, the U.S. scored high when Nikita Khrushchev, tangled in his own diplomatic web, rejected...