Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back on Gallup. For the remaining months of his life, he grubs for the answers in the memory heap of five decades, and talks his flashback findings into a tape recorder. As Jeff's soliloquy unreels on the pages of Author Carl Jonas' novel (a February Book-of-the-Month Club choice), it unwraps not a man but a mummy. For Jeff Selleck has not sprung from the soil of the creative imagination; he has been raised from the dust of the literary graveyard. He is a latter-day George Babbitt a westernized George Apley, a bewildered Willy...
...Atomic Energy Commission. Where it came from and how it found its way to Dalhart were mysteries. But for Dalhart, the thrills were not yet over. The FBI, after poking around the town for days, found another piece of pure uranium weighing 64 Ibs. on a junk heap only three blocks from the scene of the first discovery. Estimates of the value of the 33-lb. chunk found by Don ranged from...
...nearly so well as Captain Carroll Lowenstein, but he runs well, even when not accorded interference. Culver didn't lose a yard all afternoon. When confronted with a pile-up at the line, he disdains lowering his head and merely plunging' instead, he rumbles up one side of the heap, and down the other, as though the whole thing were solid ground...
...incinerator of original Nazi design" received an unexpected guest one day in 1946: the corpse of Hermann Goering, dead by his own hand (cyanide) as the gallows waited for him. After the incinerator had done its work, the ashes were shoveled into a can and dumped on a trash heap. No epitaph was written, but one was deserved: "He Was the Life & Soul of the Party...
...miles south over the rough road to Manila, where he spends the day doing errands for his lepers, visiting their relations and raising money. The four years he has been there have made quite a difference in Tala. The village is a community now, instead of a human dump heap. Though the population has increased by more than 100%, the lepers are well housed and well fed, with a library, two schools, a nursery, weekly dances, movies and an elected government which Father Hofstee (a man not without humor) calls "the cleanest in the country...