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...dull afternoon last week, Mrs. Inez Elizabeth Krone, a Bakersfield, Calif, housewife, drove out across the Kern County desert to spend an idle hour at shaded, oasis-like Hart Memorial Park. When she was six miles from Bakersfield on her way back, she saw a sallow young man in slacks and a white shirt standing beside a stalled model A Ford. The road was empty of traffic. There were no houses for miles. Mrs. Krone, a friendly, matter-of-fact woman, slowed her 1951 Buick and asked through the open window if she could be of any help...
...deepest: Ohio Oil Co.'s 21,482-ft. exploratory well in Kern County, Calif...
...five-room frame house on Los Angeles' dingy Turner Street, grew up in the "railroad section" of Bakersfield. He earned his spending money as a newsboy, a railroad callboy, a freight hustler, a farm hand and a cub reporter on the Bakersfield Californian. At Bakersfield's Kern County High School, he played clarinet in the school band and outfield on the baseball team. At the University of California, he was full of fun but not of diligence. He was a popular member of the Gun Club, which headquartered at Pop Kessler's saloon, and he flunked second...
Eventually the whole mess, truce talks and all, was dropped into the threshing machine of a U.S. presidential election. Bitterness overflowed against Korea, the allies, the U.N. and all its works. "The war in Korea," cried Senator James P. Kern of Missouri, "is a stalemate, a treadmill, a yo-yo war . . . Our allies take the cash. Our boys take the bullets...
...liner abreast of the French Line pier, he did not hesitate. Quick as an eel, he wheeled the Ile around and slid her into the slip in just 19 minutes. Even the pickets cheered. The glory and honor of France were unblemished, and the 1936 song of Jerome Kern's was laid to rest.* "When you are a sailor," explained Captain Garrigue to admiring newsmen, "you must never worry." Then he went off to splice the mainbrace...