Word: emporia
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...past seven years, and this year the $1 billion industry expects to sell a record 13 billion sq. ft. To keep up, the two biggest U.S. plywood companies are launching major expansions. Georgia-Pacific Corp. has just announced plans to build new plants at Crossett, Ark., and Emporia, Va., and U.S. Plywood Corp. has broken ground for a new $3,000,000 mill at Hammond...
...bleeding right kidney and a respiratory infection caused the second serious setback to his failing health in eight months; Earl Mountbatten, 63, Chief of the British Defense staff, in London's King Edward VIIs Hospital for Officers, after an operation for a hernia; Sportscaster Red Barber, 56, in Emporia, Va.'s Greensville Memorial Hospital, with a mild heart attack; Historian George Kennan, 60, in Princeton Hospital with hepatitis; John Glenn, 42, in Columbus' Grant Hospital with a "mild" concussion after he fell in his bathroom, while trying to fix a loose cabinet, and struck the back...
...campaign-his dudish brown derby, his Sidewalks of New York campaign song, the Bowery touches in his speech ("raddio," "horspital," etc.)-grated on Americans west of the Hudson River, emphasizing for them his alien, big-city background. Kansas' William Allen White, widely heeded editor of the Emporia Gazette, expressed the fears and suspicions of a broad, bipartisan segment of the U.S. when he wrote that the "whole puritan civilization, which has built a sturdy, orderly nation, is threatened by Smith...
...Ideal Woman. "Like Moses,'' Belle begins, "I wasn't born. I was found." She was found one day in 1875, "squalling and squirming" beneath a big sunflower on the outskirts of Emporia, Kans., and carried home by John Ramsay Graham, editor of the Emporia News, who named her Isabel and raised her-except for a brief period when she was kidnaped by some passing Indians-as his daughter. At 17, Isabel saw a performance of Robin Hood, decided then and there that she wanted to be an actress, ran away from home...
...Segal's first zoological work was with the limpet, a small saltwater mollusk, but when he got to Emporia, he turned over a stone and found a slug. It was love at first sight. He took the slug back to the lab and eagerly collected company...