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Hero's Fate. In Washington, Secretary of War Spencer flew into a rage, was assured by Navy Secretary Abel Upshur that justice would be done. As the details leaked out, Author James Fenimore Cooper denounced Mackenzie's "terrible transaction." The Navy promptly began a drawn-out court-martial at Brooklyn Navy Yard, eventually exonerated Mackenzie and set him free to continue his career (he died five years later...
...plead their case in the long fight. The REA had authorized $28 million in loans to build a power plant at Ford and 798 miles of transmission line. But after giving the co-ops $15 million, the Government agency had stopped handing out cash, pending the outcome of the drawn-out court fight with the private company. The co-ops wanted the rest of the money. But the private companies objected; they charged that the new lines were wasteful because they would duplicate their old ones...
...write, use the telephone and eating utensils, brush their teeth and even shave. drawn-out illnesses (including mental and nervous disorders), the new policies will pay 75% of the total expenses up to $10,000 after the patient has put out $200 from his own pocket. Catastrophic Policies will be sold only to groups of 50 or more who are already enrolled...
Such late-hour ignorance among Malay's crew of six should not have been surprising. One of the drawn-out processes of the Bermuda race is picking the winner. All entrants are classed according to size. Each craft gets a time allowance, figured from a complicated formula but roughly proportional to her length on the water line. Multiplied by the length of the race,-a boat's given time allowance becomes her racing handicap. Long after the race is over, officials on the committee boat are busy penciling through columns of figures to find out who really...
...Atomic Scientists, Professor (of physics) Victor F. Weisskopf, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says: "Whereas there are now numerically fewer refusals of visas, there are considerably fewer applications, as many foreign scientists react against the needless indignities and delays accompanying them. Rather than become involved in long, drawn-out procedures . . . [they show] complete reluctance to visit the U.S. for meetings...