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...does go to bed and tries to sleep, the city dweller has to contend with the incessant noises. Sub urbanites are not much better off, and the remotest home on the range may lie under the path of roaring jet airliners -the same swift giants that carry a man halfway around the world in half a day, and throw his built-in waking-and-sleeping clock out of kilter...
...tour, Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun (circ. 3,800,000) sent along a photographer and four birds; one brought a royal picture home from 250 miles at sea for a front-page scoop. Wings beat for Mainichi again when U.S. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall climbed Mount Fuji in 1961. Halfway to the summit, a cameraman released two pigeons which covered the 70 air miles to Tokyo just in time for the evening edition. The Mainichi flock scored its latest coo last October, flying in with pictures of a sailing race...
...halfway to Moscow aboard an Aeroflot TU-114 turboprop before the Cuban people were told that he was gone. Even to his Russian hosts, Fidel Castro's visit seemed a surprise. Only two welcoming banners could be seen hanging in the 21° cold at Vnukovo airport. But out rolled a Red carpet, and Premier Nikita Khrushchev was on hand to snuggle into the beard when the Maximum Leader came bounding down the ramp...
Texas is so big that it is 866 highway miles from El Paso to Orange, more than 800 air miles from Brownsville to the northwest corner of the Panhandle. El Paso is halfway between Houston and Los Angeles. Of Texas' 254 counties, 77 are about the same size as Rhode Island. Its 267,339 square miles are exceeded only by the state of Alaska. Texas has the world's largest vegetable farm (at Edinburg), the nation's deepest hole (a 25,340-foot dry well in Pecos County), even the world's largest factory for medical...
...pipe: Texas' Dr. Charles A. LeMaistre. Five were nonsmokers: the Army's (formerly Cornell's) Dr. Stanhope Bayne-Jones, Pittsburgh's Dr. Emmanuel Farber, Utah's Dr. Walter J. Burdette, Columbia's Dr. Jacob Furth, Indiana's Dr. lohn B. Hickam. (Halfway through the study, Dr. Terry switched from cigarettes to a pipe...