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...lonely hills northwest of Ann Arbor, Frank Manner stepped from his farmhouse one night last week to quiet his yelping dogs. Off beyond the cornfield, he spied a glowing, "quilted" object-which he later sketched in detail -bobbing over a swamp. After a futile attempt to stalk it, Manner called police, who also saw the apparition...
From the start, the man seemed to match the office. Said Howard R. Bowen, 56, in his inaugural address: "The University of Iowa, located almost literally on the edge of a cornfield," must be "a place that is hospitable to the individual human being, that raises his aspirations. I hope we shall also seek individuality for the university itself...
...effort somehow seemed wasted. In the brief four weeks of his campaign, Scranton had covered some 20,000 miles, visited 25 states-including a second trip last week to Illinois, where he boarded a five-car Illinois Central Railroad train for an old-fashioned whistle-stop tour through cornfield country. But he made no notable impact, and in Springfield, Mayor Nelson Howarth sadly summed up the situation when he said to the Governor...
...miles south in the neighboring state of Rhineland Palatinate, where the Russians have taken over an old resort hotel. Chilean diplomats must work above the din of a five-and-dime store on the floor be low; the small, ugly British chancellery is smack in the middle of a cornfield, across the street from a Coca-Cola plant. New buildings, like the sprawling U.S. office complex known as the Pentabonn, have been cannily designed so that they can be converted to local use as hospitals, industries and schools should the capital ever move back to Berlin...
...country's press went on printing in captivity, but Tidende wasted few chances to snipe at the Germans in print. "Now the monkeys also have to work," read the caption beneath a picture in B.T., imported from Hamburg, that showed some presumably Aryan monkeys disporting in a cornfield. A Wehrmacht officer who demanded a story in Tidende on his regimental band was politely informed that he would have to pay 10 kroner for the "advertisement...