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...race of men with an average weight of 98 pounds and an average height of 5 ft. ½ in. A normal man cannot stand in one without getting his hat knocked off, or assuming a stooped posture, not unlike that of an Oriental criminal awaiting the headsman's ax...
...motor which could shoot it back into the pile when instruments warned that neutrons were getting too thick. Another (called "Zip") was attached to a heavy weight by a rope running over a pulley. When in the "withdrawn" position, it was tethered by another rope; a man with an ax stood ready to cut it free, send it zipping into the pile if anything went wrong. The last rod, marked in feet and inches, was to be worked by hand...
Have kissed and made up-have buried the ax...
...cigaret. ... He was walking between two of my men, tied to the rope. Suddenly beneath his feet the snow and ice had vanished, a deep crevasse was open. We got him up, just like that, in a moment. I was surprised to see that he still had my ice ax firmly in his hand. ... It is rare that a greenhorn has such presence of mind. I'm tired like...
Fenced Out. The fourscore casualties of Field's big shake-up got double severance pay. But the left-wingers among them raised an anguished outcry: lean, thick-lensed Executive Editor Eli Zachary Dimitman, they complained, had eased them out and kept conservatives on. Actually the ax had fallen right & left. In the Sun's foreign staff of seven, only Frederick Kuh (London), Alexander Kendrick (Paris) and Virginia Prewett (Latin America) had survived. In Washington, byliners like careful, competent Carroll Kilpatrick, who covered Congress, and Labor Specialist James Free were...