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...rises gently from the sea through nitrate fields to the border at Socompa. But the Argentines had to push up through the barren, eroded land that the early Spaniards called "the country of desperation and death." Through the red-rock canyon of Quebrada del Toro, a 14,000-foot-high waste of salt desert, and along windswept slopes the construction crews fought their way, cutting 23 tunnels through the Andean rock and throwing bridges across 36 chasms. In summer they battled thirst, in winter the dry snow wind (viento bianco) that blows day & night. Sometimes construction was halted for months...
...York interviewing people and assembling material. The result of nearly three weeks' work was her 50-page report. It covered the year's economy, segment by segment, with a chronology of events, earnings figures, significant developments in industry, etc. Researcher Stoddard also passed along a foot-high stack of pertinent reports on the year's business, selected from the 100-odd morgue folders she had gone through...
Dean Bender's vandalism ultimatum failed to halt the best laid plans of 16 Crimson boosters who returned triumphant from New Haven yesterday to announce that a 25-foot-high white H now overlooks the Eli stronghold from towering East Rock...
After lettering the doors of Leverett and Winthrop Houses with eighteen-inch scarlet B's and U's the vandals bedecked House squash courts with 2-foot-high characters...
Fortnight ago, eccentric Millionaire-Engineer Davis revealed his version of a fey project for a Dover war memorial pro posed last summer (TIME, July 29). Davis' idea: an 80-foot statue of Winston Churchill holding a mammoth cigar over his head like the Statue of Liberty torch, mounted on a 100-foot-high pedestal bearing an inscription, "Never was so much owed by so many to one man," which thoroughly squeezed the juice from a great Churchillism. A model (see cut) was prepared by a New Hampshire sculptor, Viggo Brandt-Erickson. Davis offered his idea to the mayors...