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Road maps say that the border of Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina is a crow-flies straight line along the 35th parallel from Scaly Mountain, N.C., to Guild, Tenn. But for more than a century a rather quaint controversy has cooked over whether an 1811 surveyor made a southward error -thrown off by a forest fire and Indian harassment-and gave Tennessee and North Carolina some 300 sq. mi. of mountainous woods that actually belong to Georgia...
...line with that of the strongest of his predecessors, men who felt fully capable of ruling the House?and, if necessary, filling a vacancy in the presidency if the Vice President, too, should die. The fifth Speaker, Nathaniel Macon, considered himself "the elect of the elect," while the 35th, Joseph Cannon, haughtily declined a dinner invitation from President Theodore Roosevelt because he was to be seated below the Attorney General. Albert has none of the dictatorial bent of Cannon, the eloquence and ambition of Henry Clay (who got the House to declare war on Britain despite the reluctance of President...
...Lung. Gluck's research team discovered that the fetal lung generally matures around the 35th week of pregnancy. This development is signaled by a change in the amniotic fluid surrounding the fetus. At that point, the level of a phospholipid known as lecithin usually rises sharply and surpasses the level of another lipid, sphingomyelin. To determine if this has occurred normally, the Gluck test uses transabdominal amniocentesis, a technique that involves inserting a sterile needle through the abdomen into the womb, drawing off a sample of amniotic fluid and measuring the lipid levels...
...Corp., Stein is paid $160,000 a year; he also owns 5% of the corporation's stock, a holding now worth about $2,000,000. He runs his empire in a muted, loosely organized style. Visitors often find him sprawled in an armchair in his corner office on the 35th floor of Manhattan's General Motors Building, his shoes off while he studies charts. Stein's informal clothes, casual manner and diffident speech are outward manifestations of a state of mind. He soaks up information, but prefers getting it from people rather than books. An unschooled man with great gaps...
...patriarch was virtually invisible during the 1960 campaign. But on Jan. 20, 1961, he sat reviewing the inaugural parade with translucent pride beside his son, the 35th President of the U.S. Then the brief realization of his dream began...