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According to State Department sources, the Russians will not be allowed to visit Atlanta, as previously scheduled. Instead, the editors will be permitted to view the negro college, Tuskegee Institute, in Tuskegee, Alabama, and will then travel northward to the University of Michigan. The State Department gave no reason for the action...
...wanderlusty Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, world tramper and traveloguer (Of Men and Mountains, Strange Lands and Friendly People), spent a long summer vacation clambering about on the peaks of northern Iran. Suspecting that Douglas, from his lofty perches, had stolen a peek or two northward, the Russians promptly and peevishly accused him of spying on them. Now, however, unpredictable Moscow is willing to let him look around some more. This summer, accompanied by Democrat Robert F. Kennedy, counsel to the Senate's Government Operations Committee, Douglas will enter Russia from Iran, reconnoiter by car through six Soviet...
...must test oneself against danger in preparation for when it comes," says President Pérez Jiménez. Setting a killing pace for the official sedans that followed, he swerved along the northward-twisting highway toward the Caribbean. At the coast he turned west again over the low plain to Barquisimeto, speeding through the clear dusk that silhouetted wide-spreading samán trees blackly against an orchid...
...underneath there lay a treasure trove of uranium ore. Joubin told Joe Hirshhorn his theory, and Hirshhorn agreed, with associates, to put up $30,000 in 1953 to take core samples in the area. The cores proved Joubin right. The uranium deposit lay in a body extending 30 miles northward to Quirke Lake (see map). But since the discovery lay close to Canada's well-traveled Highway 17, and to the tracks of the Canadian Pacific, Hirshhorn would have to stake his claims in a hurry before the word...
...Moving northward, the Bradys soon struck it really rich; in the Jáltipan area they found a great dome that may be the world's biggest, surpassing even Texas' famed Boling Dome, which has yielded 40 million tons. This time the Bradys turned over production rights to a group of Texas oilmen who formed Pan American Sulphur...