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Director of the far-flung diplomatic machinery which tackles this job is a tough aristocrat of 58-a tall, big-boned man with a high forehead, clear, slightly myopic eyes, a firm chin, a sensitive mouth. He was christened Edward Frederick Lindley Wood. Now he is Viscount Halifax, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of His Majesty's Government for the past 23 momentous months of world affairs...
...glib, confidential voice that made this announcement was that of Arthur Hale, a Manhattan newscaster who in his 43 years has been doughboy, claim agent, insurance man, trackwalker and radio pianist, but never a reporter. Behind his voice was Transradio Press Service, Inc., radio's lone and far-flung news agency...
...surrounded by mountains at the point where the Yellow River intercepts the old desert route from Turkestan to Peking. Inside its mud walls and high gates is found a desert melting pot of Mongols, Turks, Tibetans, Manchus. Moslems who have long thrived on the city's far-flung trade. At Lanchow, Bactrian camels dump full caravan loads that have been hauled 1,500 miles from the Turkestan-Siberian railhead in Kazakistan. By camelback are brought dates from Turkestan, raisins and apricots from Turfan...
...heels of the Teehmen with 48 votes or 13.3 per cent while Yale trailed, garnering 11.8 per cent with 42 votes. A residue of 7.4 fell outside the four most popular colleges with 22 girls writing in the names of their favorite men's institution, including such far-flung sports as California Institute of Technology and Rollins...
...Atlantic near the Equator, they were surprised to see land planes flying about, many hundreds of miles from any land. Presently the watchers sighted a British aircraft carrier and a British cruiser, also a French cruiser. Challenger's passengers then realized they beheld part of the far-flung Allied hunt for Nazi sea raiders...