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Letter of the Law. In Chatham, England, deciding to play it safe after downing three pints of beer at a local pub, Charles Spinner pushed his motor bike home instead of riding it, was fined $14 anyway and had his license suspended for a year for "being drunk in charge of a motor vehicle...
...electrical cables had been cut clean through. The damage postponed the Urania's readiness by a month, and will cost thousands of pounds. One day last week, electric wiring was cut on the frigate Loch Lomond, undergoing repairs at Bristol, and on the submarine Turpin, which is at Chatham for installation of secret equipment to help her evade detection by hostile surface craft...
...Named for Major Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, who. after a rousing military career in various Latin American and Italian wars, returned home at the outbreak of the Civil War, recruited a 5OO-man cavalry battalion called the "Louisiana Tigers," which made a brilliant showing from the first Battle of Bull Run until Wheat's death at the battle of Gaines's Mill in 1862. He fell with a bullet through his head, crying: "Bury me on the field, boys...
...poverty-stricken farm land of Chatham County, N.C., Clarence H. Poe got a proposition from his uncle. "If you'll pick the leftover cotton in that patch," he was told, "I'll give you a year's subscription to the Progressive Farmer." It did not seem much of an offer to a spirited, twelve-year-old North Carolina farm boy. The Progressive Farmer was a struggling, eight-page weekly with only about 5,000 readers. But it changed Poe's life. He got the subscription, and became so interested in the Farmer that...
Just before dawn one day last week, a greying, carefully dressed man left his twelfth-floor room in Manhattan's Chatham Hotel, where he was staying with the other members of Communist Poland's U.N. delegation. Suitcase in hand, he tiptoed down the fire stairs to the ninth floor, then took an elevator to the lobby. He left the hotel, went to the phone booth in an all-night restaurant nearby and dialed a Manhattan number. After a short conversation in Polish, he left the restaurant and hailed a taxi. In this manner, Dr. Marek Korowicz, 50, professor...