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...great, fanlike sweep of DEW (Distant Early Warning) radar that stretches for 9,000 miles across land and sea to guard the Arctic approaches to North America, there is still one glaring and worrisome gap: the unscanned air corridor across Greenland. In Washington last week, U.S. Army Engineers announced awards of $27 million in contracts to fill the Greenland gap with four DEW radar bases. A Danish firm will build bases on Greenland's east and west coasts. A U.S. firm, Peter Kiewit Sons Co., will build two inland stations with a new look: the main buildings will...
...Geneva corridor talk brought some sharp if still baffled evaluation of the Pope's motives in calling the Rome meeting. Germany's Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius hopefully felt that the Pope might be acknowledging the World Council's strength (171 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches in 53 countries, with a combined membership of close to 350 million, compared to an estimated 496 million Roman Catholics). Martin Niemoeller, outspoken German pacifist, envisioned a papal effort "to wean away the Eastern Orthodox churches from the World Council. I do not think this will work. The council has more practical...
...great part of the Houghton collection lies in the vast, rambling stacks which run underneath the building, with an annex under Lamont, reached by a long echoing corridor. The stack area is air conditioned, with the air being washed, filtered, and run between electrically charged plates, to prevent disintegration of the books. The temperature is kept constant, and the walls are fireproof. In fact the library is so carefully constructed that the only possible danger is that at some time a water pipe might leak and inundate the stacks. To guard against this remote possibility, the library has a number...
...warm. Said she: 'Why don't some of you boys open the windows?" In fourth-grade arithmetic, a boy blurted: "Sister, I smell smoke." Smoke began to seep under classroom doors, through open transoms. A fire alarm clanged. The fourth-grade teacher opened the door, found the corridor full of smoke, slammed the door shut. She told the children to go to the windows and pray...
...second floor the fire blowtorched down the 35-yd. corridor behind clouds of thick, black smoke, blocked all ways to the only fire escape at the rear. Out of the last of the five classrooms a nun in her 305 crawled with 40 seventh-graders to a front staircase, desperately rolled the children down the stairs to safety before coming down herself. But in the four other classrooms the children were trapped...