Word: eurekas
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...coastal cities might be destroyed by the atom bomb (TIME, May 13), Roger Babson, paid counselor to businessmen (Babson's Reports, Inc.) and gratuitous adviser to the world, has been looking for a place to hide. Last week, in the heart of Kansas, he found it. In Eureka (pop. 3,803), Babson bought a dilapidated three-story Main Street building occupied by a beer tavern and roomers. He intends to construct vaults underneath it, deposit in them the voluminous records of his wealthy clients...
...While brooding in a public bath over a question posed to him by King Hiero of Syracuse-how to determine whether the King's crown was made of pure gold-Archimedes hit on the answer, jumped up, ran home naked, shouting "Eureka!" (I have found it.) The solution: by weighing the crown under water, Archimedes easily determined how much heavier it was than water, compared the result with the known specific gravity of pure gold. A floating body, he went on to show, displaces its own weight in water...
...stepfather, Frank Fowler, who tried to make ends meet by selling Egg Wonder Powder, a baking preparation, and Eureka pants-hangers. He also had a grandfather, an old prospector who still hoped to strike it rich in the Colorado hills and spent much of his free time dosing himself with quinine, calomel and the secret remedies of one Gun Wa, a Chinese doctor. Most important of all, Gene had a grandmother, a pious, masterful woman whose hair had once been admired by General Lew Wallace...
Stranger Here Myself. An immigrant (from Radna, Rumania), short, bustling, bespectacled Theodore Andrica (rhymes with Eureka), 45, knows the immigrant's nostalgia for the old country. Broke when he landed in the U.S. in 1921, he worked as an orderly in a Buffalo hospital, was ordained a Russian Orthodox priest in Erie, Pa., changed from cleric to bank clerk, drifted to Cleveland...
...Chase. Led by their strike boss G. F. Brown, the pickets ran to their automobiles, sped east on U.S. Route 24, which parallels the T.P. & W.'s tracks, and soon passed the rolling train. At Eureka the strikers parked near the tracks. As the caboose passed, they threw rocks and stones. Shotgun blasts roared from the train. No picket...