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Assisting Mr. Taft are his son Ted (who is also a special member of the Shirley Police Department) and his wife. A veteran who picked up a crippling case of malaria on Guadalcanal, Ted is the doer, the finder, and the fixer for his father--a thousand details devolve on him as he operates a sort of liaison service between the front office, the Villagers, and the contractors. Mrs. Taft, also greying but slightly larger than her husband, concentrates on the wives of the Village and assists such projects as a day nursery for the babies...
Smell is probably more important than sight as a food-finder. Mosquitoes were attracted by air which had blown past a human being. They could also feel warmth at considerable distance. A human forearm cooled a few degrees did not interest them. If heated slightly it attracted them quickly. Moisture was important too. But on very damp days, a sweaty forearm was not as attractive as on dry days...
Having thus stated management's demurrer to the Walter Reuther case, Lawyer Merritt and the entire G.M. delegation walked out, left the panel and the union to do what fact-finding they could on their own hook. (Chief Fact-Finder Lloyd K. Garrison, visibly angry, pointed out that his panel had not yet asked General Motors for any earnings information and was not even sure that it would...
...conference room at the Labor Department, the heads of General Motors and the striking United Automobile Workers sat facing each other across a horseshoe-shaped table, presided over by Fact Finder Lloyd K. Garrison and his two assistants, North Carolina's Judge Walter P. Stacy, Kansas' Milton Eisenhower (brother of General Ike). Few facts were being found. The union's Walter Reuther insisted on a 30% raise unless "shown the arithmetic" to prove that such a raise would force higher auto prices. The company refused to lay the figures on the table before "the hungry eyes...
...Army used what it called "Sferic" - Static Direction Finder - a device developed in Florida and combat-tested in the storm-ridden Pacific theater. Sferic employs a radar-like directional antenna (two mutually perpendicular receiving loops) and cathode-ray tube. Certain types of storms are accompanied by severe electrical disturbances, familiar to every radio listener as the crashing static that accompanies a thunderstorm...