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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Projects in Hand. His missions downtown accomplished, J.D.R. Jr. was driven seven miles back along state Route 3 in his Cadillac limousine to The Eyrie, his gabled, secluded 50-room summer home on a wooded granite ridge 500 yds. back from the slate-grey Atlantic. From the car, his keen eyes swept a faraway view-wild mountains and neat harbors and white-sailed yachts sparkling-then dwelt more closely upon the prim lanes and green lawns that please his sense of economy and precision...
Carefully J.D.R. Jr. stepped out of his car, walked indoors, and soon afterward was busily going through a sheaf of papers at his kneehole desk in the small office to the right of the front door. Though nominally retired since 1954, he is interested in many of the island's good works. Unobtrusively, he is building a small public park on the old Dane estate on a scenic headland near Seal Harbor, acquiring more land for the island's roomy Acadia National Park, paying the hospital bills of a local family, laying plans for the removal of more...
...Even though the Sports Car Club of America thought the new track at Watkins Glen, N.Y. too hazardous for car racing, its members refused to back out of the ninth annual Sports Car Grand Prix. Taking it easy on the loose gravel, the drivers spun through a shortened. 50-mile grind, avoided serious accident as George Constantine. a Massachusetts Civil Defense director, pushed his D-Jaguar to a careful victory...
...herself bullied by the mob at Clay, "the climate was unhealthy for two classes of citizens-newspaper people and Negroes." Before the guard arrived, newsmen trying to approach the Clay school were run out of town, and one managed to escape while a crowd tried to overturn his car...
Freight Shrinker. A freight-car Shrinker to cut cargo damage in railroad cars (last year American railroads paid more than $98 million in claims) was announced by New York Inventor Glenn F. Wilkes. The Shrinker is a movable steel bulkhead at each end of a freight car. As the cargo starts to shift in transit, the bulkhead automatically forces it back in place through a system of cogs and springs...