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Natalie did not reach the top rung in one leap: she has been in films for nearly 20 years. Most of her credits are best forgotten, but there were enough big hits -Miracle on 34th Street, Rebel Without a Cause, Marjorie Morningstar-to keep her career moving upward. It began in Santa Rosa, Calif., when four-year-old Natalie-then Natasha Gurdin-went with her Russian-immigrant mother to watch the filming of Happyland. Even then she was a raving beauty, and Director Irving Pichel plucked her out of the crowd to give her a bit part. In her next...
...Kennedy and his strategists became alarmed. About noon on Monday, Bissell was told that the B-26s could attack Castro's airfields at will. But the orders came too late. Most of the pilots had been in the air for upward of 18 hours in an unavailing effort to keep Castro's planes off the troops and the remaining ship. That night a small force was scratched together. It was over Cuba at dawn, only to find the fields hidden by low, impenetrable...
...always there, his head the highest part of the sculpture, but design is never sacrificed to theme. The eye of the beholder becomes restless, and that is as it should be: it darts in among the folds of the robes, leaps from point to point, sweeps upward and then down again-as if the bronze itself were on the move, bursting with secrets to tell...
Besides, some of the upward pressures that an expanding economy generally exerts on interest rates are missing this year. So far, the Fed has not had to boost borrowing rates to head off inflation, because prices have remained fairly stable throughout the recovery. President Kennedy is reluctant to take any counter-inflationary step that might slow recovery. so long as 6.9% of the work force remains unemployed. For the moment, too, with the U.S. balance of payments in relatively good shape and the pressure on U.S. gold reserves consequently diminished, the Administration feels no great need to juggle interest rates...
...loose. Then he prances forward, flapping his skinny arms and kicking his knees almost to his chest. Suddenly, his left foot slams savagely into the take-off board. His eyes bug, his face contorts, and his legs pedal furiously as he springs into trajectory. His left hand claws upward through the air as though searching for something...