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Since magnetic readings in the vicinity of the pole are believed to vary widely at different altitudes, and since all U.S. data was obtained from planes, the Canadians have a hunch that the three U.S. poles are really just one fast-stepping pole. Quipped one R.C.A.F. bigwig: "The Americans are always at least two better than...
Panning out the thin gold in Nevada's Carson Valley in the 1850s, miners cursed a heavy blue sand that clogged their rockers. In 1859, "Old Pancake" Comstock and three others, playing a hunch, staked out a 1,500-ft. claim around the mouth of a small spring where the blue sand was thick. They sent a sample of crumbly stuff across the mountains to an assayer in Grass Valley, Calif. He tested it twice, to be sure. There was no doubt: the stuff that gold miners had cursed and kicked aside was rich in silver...
...keel had been laid almost before the echo of London's V-E day celebration had died down. Along with her sister ship, the Parthia, to be launched in November, she had been rushed to completion in less than two years. She represented Britain's shrewdest hunch on what it takes to cop the postwar ocean traffic...
...improved. ... [But] I am convinced that no responsible statesman in any country can, or does, contemplate the prospect of war." For the immediate future Lie was probably right; but Lake Success was haunted by the fear that a fateful day would come when Andrei Gromyko, the Neanderthal diplomat, would hunch his shoulders and follow his bulbous nose out of a door for the last time...
...journalists, one English, one American, thought there were. Together they talked a group of English backers into supporting the hunch with ?23,000. Last week they put out the first issue of the 16-page, pocket-size weekly American Outlook. Outlook will sell for a whopping five guineas ($21) a year, and will break even only if it gets 5,000 subscribers...