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Soft-voiced, hard-eyed men in Kentucky's "Bloody" Harlan County began saying Ambrose Metcalfe was a "candidate" (meaning, for the graveyard) almost as soon as he pinned on a policeman's badge in 1946. It took him just two years and eight months to get there. Last week, when his kinfolk took his bullet-riddled body up the dusty Poor Fork road and buried it in a little family cemetery, many a hillman thought Ambrose had actually outlived his life expectancy...
...When Churchill refuted the charge in a wire to Texas' Tom Connally, Langer exploded in almost unintelligible rage. Churchill, he roared, "is not an enigma wrapped in riddle; he is a cold-blooded foreign propagandist wrapped in a bag of aristocratic wind inside a worldwide graveyard which he helped to create and in which he feels so thoroughly at home that now he wants to do it all over again and get us into one more...
...whether oil was found or not. Extra-legal riders of one sort or another jacked royalties as high as 25%; the total government take, in taxes and royalties, sometimes ran over half the value of a company's net revenue. "Colombia," growled an oilman in Bogota, "is the graveyard of oil profits from other countries...
Last week in Moscow, Paleontologist I. A. Efremov announced that he had found "millions" of dinosaur skeletons in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. It might well prove to be the biggest dinosaur graveyard in the world. The skeletons lie from 49 to 131 feet deep, apparently in the bed of an ancient river...
Just before the beginning of the Tempelhof runway there was a graveyard crowded with several thousand kids waving at us. These were the expectant beneficiaries of operation "Little Vittles," started by Lieut. Gale S. Halverson, who dropped candy and gum to kids in little parachutes made of handkerchiefs. The town of Mobile, Ala., where Halverson used to be stationed, had taken up a collection, including 50 pounds of handkerchiefs, for "Little Vittles...