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When Dick was six, his father put the name of Russell on Georgia's map by incorporating a settlement a mile and a half east of Winder. It became a flag stop on the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's Atlanta line, so father Russell could commute to his office in Atlanta. Dick's mother, now frail and 84, still lives in Russell, Ga. (pop. 150) with her oldest grandson, Richard Russell Green...
...heavy spring rain swept across the runways and drummed on the roof of a large corrugated metal shed. Inside, the leather-jacketed crews for ten U.S. Air Force B-29s crowded into the briefing room. "Gentlemen," said the major, as he laid his pointer on a ten-foot map of Japan and Korea, "our target for tonight is the rail bridge at Sinhung." Said the captain: "You'll each be carrying forty 500-pound bombs with nose fuses . . . Flak is expected to be meager until the release point. We don't believe it is radar-controlled...
...problem of creeping censorship has reached such a stage that U.S. editors at their own convention last fortnight stated: "The biggest uncovered story of the time might simply be the story of how much information the people [are] being denied-the uncharted map of that enormous area of Government activity behind the red-tape curtain...
...began with a Danish survey map made in 1938. His mathematical predictions agree with measurements made by French Explorer Paul-Emile Victor as recently as 1950. Victor's party, however, had to make a 700-mile trek across southern Greenland. Every ten miles they measured ice thickness by detonating a charge of dynamite and timing the echo as it bounced from the rock floor far below. Admittedly more accurate, Victor's seismic soundings were time-consuming and limited. As check-points for Nye's formulas, they take on new importance...
...fear of retaliation by retailers) were letting local agents handle things on an "independent" basis. But the selling of home freezers together with frozen foods at discount prices is already a tremendous new U.S. merchandising phenomenon. So-called "food plans" have been springing up all over the map...