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...m.p.h., with gusts up to 35 m.p.h. blowing in practically a straight line from the proving grounds to Skull Valley, where the sheep died. Facing a delegation of Utah Congressmen in Washington last week, General Stone admitted that "we fully recognize with this occurring right on our doorstep, and probably involving a chemical similar to materials we have been testing, that we are highly suspect." Investigation of the sheep deaths, he said, would continue...
Converted last spring from a lowly Army freighter of the sort that toted toothpaste and toilet paper around the South Pacific during World War II, the ship was on her first surveillance mission, gathering intelligence practically on the doorstep of Russia's Pacific fleet headquarters at Vladivostok. The spooking game is a lonely one at best, but as Pueblo's 83-man crew and the rest of the world learned last week, it can also be perilous...
Elegiac Worst. With the onset of World War II, "the smouldering heart, the seamless brow" of the youthful Day-Lewis began a slow, often painful search for order-a quest that some critics fear may have put his "less Dionysiac" verse at the Establishment's doorstep. Yet the best of his lyrical and narrative poems display a trim, controlled power...
...water supply. But when Water Authority Member (and Islip Republican Party Leader) Edward McGowan's firm bought the land, the authority changed its mind and approved its rezoning for manufacturing. McGowan sold the tract for a $167,000 profit. The scandal reached even to Newsday's doorstep. Its Suffolk editor, Kirk Price, who died last March, made $33,000 by a sale of land that he had bought for $50. He was assisted by the ubiquitous Kuss, who saw to it that a four-lane highway was routed past the property to enhance its value, and who arranged...
...they blame the Congress or the President, corporate executives are increasingly vexed by uncertainties and inaction in Washington. "It's difficult to calculate the inflationary pressures on labor rates and costs of ingredients," complains President William Howlett of Consolidated Foods. "I lay 99% of the responsibility at the doorstep of the Administration," says President Robinson F. Barker of PPG Industries. "Sure, you can keep surtaxing and surtaxing until we're surtaxed to death," says President A. Clark Daugherty of Rockwell Manufacturing Co., "but it won't help unless federal spending is cut." The difficulty about wielding...