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...terms of this barren pettifoggery, Auchincloss works out a dozen neat but wholly unreal fictional theorems. They are good stories in the sense that the recognizable counters are moved to the appropriate squares. Lawyer A from Yale, with the dark tie and thick short hair, goes one up (associate to partner), B from Columbia, with the silvery tie and slick hair, goes down and out. And so the game goes on down Wall Street, with imaginary ladders and real snakes...
WHEREAS: What shall we do in the heat of summer But wait in barren orchard for another October--T. S. Eliot...
Astronomic Odds. Last week the program got under way as five slender, needlelike Army Pershing missiles lifted from a barren mesa outside the town of Blanding, Utah, climbed above the earth's atmosphere and arced to bull's-eye landings in impact areas at the heavily instrumented White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, some 350 miles to the southeast. Later this month, the Air Force will launch the first of some 80 Athena rockets from Green River, Utah, to White Sands, a span of almost 500 miles. The Athenas, toting experimental nose cones are expected to provide...
...northern tier of Alabama, once pathetically barren, now flourishes under the spur of the Tennessee Valley Authority's cheap public power and of the mushrooming U.S.-financed space-age industries. The missile city of Huntsville, with its glistening new office buildings is the jewel of the valley area. During the decade of the '50s, it almost quintupled in population, now approaches 100,000. West of Huntsville, the tri-cities complex of Florence, Sheffield and Tuscumbia is bursting with new heavy industry, while southeast is Guntersville, a thriving resort area that features fine fishing, sailing and impressive scenery. There...
Fortunately, caribou are still plentiful near Anaktuvuk Pass, and no one is going hungry. But contemporary civilization is closing in with deadly effect. Radioactive fallout from Russian and U.S. nuclear tests has dangerously poisoned the Nunamiuts' barren homeland. Fallout there has been no thicker than in many other parts of the world, but it has concentrated ominously in the bodies of the Eskimos. A report made for the Atomic Energy Commission by General Electric scientists showed that in the summer of 1962, the inhabitants of Anaktuvuk Pass had an average "whole body burden" of 421 nanocuries*of caesium...