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...Consider Charlie Smith, who last week celebrated what he calculated to be his 125th birthday in Bartow, Fla. A spry ex-slave, Charlie runs a small cold-drink and candy shop and thrives on raw sausages, crackers, 7UP, and telling people how old he is. Naturally, he has his secrets of longevity: "I never drink no green [plain] milk-only chocolate. I don't eat no table food-cooked stuff is not too good...
...Florida's sandy flatlands near Bartow last week, the Atomic energy Commission pulled back the curtain on a mysterious little factory tucked in behind the world's biggest phosphate plant. The mother plant is International Minerals & Chemical Corp.'s new $15 million operation that can turn out a total of 40,000 tons of fertilizer and 120,000 tons of cattle-feed supplement annually. But the baby annex, with its maze of pipes and vats, is even more impressive. Behind a barbed-wire fence, International Minerals & Chemical is making commercial quantities of high-grade uranium...
Education: High school at Summerlin Institute, Bartow, Fla.; West Point, Class 1915. Played halfback on the Army varsity in his senior year. Ranked 92nd among 164 graduates. Among his classmates: Dwight Eisenhower (ranked 61) and Omar Bradley (ranked...
Opportunist. In Bartow, Fla., after an automobile smashed the door and two plate-glass windows of his laundry, undaunted John W. Edwards posted a notice: "Business as usual. Bartow's only drive-in laundry...
ROBERT E. BARTOW Toledo...