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...Barn. Pekin, the home of Bird Farm Sausage, Bourbon Supreme and Olt's Duck Calls, was a pleasant place for boys. They played "stink base," "run, sheep, run," football and marbles, fished for crappies and perch in the river. The block on which the Dirksen house stood was rimmed with bushy maple trees, and Tom Dirksen recalls that "you could climb up in one tree and go all the way around the block without touching the ground, climbing from tree to tree." But Everett didn't go in too much for that sort of amusement. Says...
...Cover) On a stony California ridge, a rocket engine wide as a barn door lit the sky like an erupting volcano, while its roar racketed for 45 miles across the Mojave Desert. In a quiet Massachusetts laboratory, scientists carefully tuned a new and incredibly sensitive radio receiver designed to trap signals from far-out space. All over the U.S. last week, the story was the same: thousands of scientists and engineers sweated over strange new jobs−jobs more difficult than any they had ever attempted before. In a frenzy of creativeness they were producing new materials, machines, instruments, methods...
Whitefield, N.H., Chase Barn Playhouse: The Disenchanted, Broadway's 1958 soggy saga about F. Scott Fitzgerald...
...savage" and "animalistic," helped instigate a riot himself. But under the guiding hand of beefy, reform-minded Warden Johnson, 44, Crump gradually began to come round. He read voraciously, boned up on law, philosophy, sociology and the Bible (he is a convert to Catholicism). Today Paul Crump reigns as "barn boss" of a cell-block tier housing sick and problem convicts, works long hours administering to their needs. In his tiny cell, cluttered with books and manuscripts, he writes poetry, spices his correspondence with quotes from Nietzsche and William Blake. He has just completed his first novel, Burn, Killer, Burn...
...than one. and for "in side man" he has chosen Vice President Clay Blair, 37, former Post managing editor. "It's a two-man job," he says, "as long as it's clear who's running the show." Soon he will embark on a five-week barn storming tour of the U.S. to see the "heads of 75 companies, the top 30 ad agencies, bankers, securities analysts...