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Nowhere to Nowhere. Hundreds of Englishmen exist for the sole purpose of keeping branch lines running, raising cash to rent doomed sections from Railway Boss Beeching, making weekend pilgrim ages to such officially abandoned routes as the Bluebell ("Nowhere to Nowhere") loop in Sussex. Despite a petition signed by 25,000 rail buffs, the Society for the Reinvigoration of Unremunerative Branch Lines in the United Kingdom (SRUBLUK) failed to keep open the scenic reach between Westerham and Dunton Green in Kent last October...
...around two high-scoring junior wings--John Cook and Jim Hyland. Cook, unanimous All-Ivy choice last year, tied for the individual scoring lead with 24 points in 1960-61 and is second in League scoring this year. Hyland is also among the top five scorers in the hockey loop...
...Atlas-Agena's shoulders was a needle-nosed, 675-lb. assemblage of instruments called Ranger I, whose 19,520 electronic parts were designed to measure cosmic rays, solar radiation and magnetic fields with hitherto unparalleled accuracy. Ranger was not aimed for the moon, but its big exclamation-mark loop would test equipment for a lunar trip that man some day will take...
...corridor, and in Berlin, unobstructed Tegel Airport in the French sector. Using these three fields would avoid the 5,000-ft. climb to clear mountains, cut the average distance nearly in half, permit the planes to flow toward Tegel at a mere 500 ft., returning in a wide northern loop to approach their home fields from the West...
...Lake Shore Apartments--twin skyscrapers built on one-story concrete stilts appearing "rather effemoral" to Creese--are designed to blend harmoniously with the Lake Michigan background. On the other hand, the seemingly realistic Chicago Tribune building, constructed to house a novel illuminated tower, now appears archaic in the Loop...