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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ALLYN F. EKSTROM Kay Bee Fur Farms Mt. Morrison, Colo...
...unemployed Air Force veteran named Joseph Saccomano climbed to the belfry of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in The Bronx, and balanced there for an hour threatening to commit suicide. He ignored the pleas of priests, police and relatives. Then a photographer named Vincent Riccio looked upward and bellowed: "You're a chicken-livered, yellow phony . . . come on down and fight!" Snorting with rage, the would-be suicide scrambled down, was grabbed by the cops and toted off to have his head examined...
...last. When the book was in galleys, an expedition discovered the highest peak of the Drakensberg range in South Africa; when the book was in page proof, another expedition "discovered" the headwaters of the Orinoco (TIME, Dec. 24). After that, the gazetteers began to lose out. Mt. Etna suddenly changed its height by erupting, and a British oceanographer located the deepest spot in the Pacific-both too late to make the final deadline...
...circuits. Even A.T. & T., which supplies cross-country TV lines, said last month that there was not enough time to set up relays for the big show. Landsberg, who has been working with electronics for more than half his life, decided to try the 264-mile relay to Mt. Wilson anyway. Landsberg's daring plan...
Accompanying the text are forty figures and eleven plates from the Mt. Wilson and Palomar observatories...