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...other cars. She was stopped, naturally, and everybody had to start backing (the country road past the entrance to Glen Ora is definitely one way). The tourist approach will probably change as the weather improves. Virginia's Historic Garden Week and the Middleburg Races in April bring a flush of tourists, even in normal times. These will, undoubtedly, wend their way to Glen Ora, but all they'll see will be the gatehouse entrance, the top of the roof of the main house, and a couple of miles of tortured stone walls on either side of the country...
...area, replaced it with soft turf and a specially constructed water sprinkling system. Buckets of bugs were carried away, and the entire site was sprayed with DDT. Into the Queen's two-bedroom tent went a white-lacquered zinc bathtub, hot-water plumbing, and a flush toilet-equipped with a red velvet seat cover for comfort in the early-morning chill. An airstrip was constructed; access roads from Katmandu, 160 miles away, were widened and improved. In high grass four miles from camp, workmen set up a "hunting ring," surrounded by a 5-ft. fence of white cloth...
...eleven years, thousands of Nationalist Chinese soldiers maintained themselves in the mountainous corner where China, Burma, Laos and Thailand meet, and defied all efforts to dislodge them. When attacked by the Red Chinese, they slipped across the border to sanctuary in Burma. When Burmese troops tried to flush them out, they retreated to China. But last week their luck...
Pedalless Car. Automobile controls that eliminate the brake and gas pedals were demonstrated by Bendix Corp. Two pressure plates flush with the floorboards replace the pedals. Braking is faster because the driver does not have to lift his foot. Bendix claims the development will make pedals "as obsolete as the hand crank...
...bulges into hundreds, and the A.F.L.-C.I.O. pays a bounty of 40? for every new voter. The goal is 40,000 voters, which would cost the union $16,000. On Election Day the A.F.L.-C.I.O. will pay thousands of members $25 each to take off from their jobs and flush out the vote in Michigan. The formula: canvass Democratic areas block by block, drive voters to the polls, pass out "idiot sheets" that tell how and for whom to pull the lever. When need be, the unionists also baby...