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Turnover. In Cincinnati. ex-Convict Robert Ziegler. held on a charge of stealing $118 from his employer, complained that some thief stole the money from under a blanket in his car where he had hidden...
Some of the most historic towns in this section offer the voyager more than just a place to spread his blanket. Rockport presents a thriving art colony with exhibitions by some of America's most noted painters. Salem offers Nathaniel Hawthorne and his original House of Seven Gables, while Gloucester provides a chance for an inlander to get a whale's-eye view of New England's famed fishing industry...
Spiritual Allergies. The actual working of the church's book censorship is not so inflexible as it sounds. Any Catholic with a "good reason" for reading a banned book can easily get permission from his bishop. Many U.S. bishops give temporary blanket permissions to students in their dioceses to read books necessary for their studies...
Greenland's glacial blanket, explains Dr. Nye, tends to spread out and flow downhill because of its own weight. But this movement is balanced by the rock floor compressed under centuries of ice and snow. Some ice is lost in summer's melting and in icebergs that break off to sea. But the big glacier is refreshed with snow slowly hardening into more ice. It is this almost perfect equilibrium that Dr. Nye describes in his complicated formulas. Having written the equations, the lab-locked explorer then works backward, calculating ice depth from surface contours...
...there are only 108 TV stations in the U.S. The new FCC ruling assigns a total of 2,053 stations to 1,291 communities, which will virtually blanket the U.S. and its possessions, from Alaska to Puerto Rico, with TV. Two hundred forty-two stations are to be set aside for noncommercial "educational use." To make sure there is room enough for everybody, FCC is also assigning 70 new ultra high frequency channels to television...