Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...featuring Tenor Happy Edwards in eye-rolling low comedy, the LeFevre Trio (Eva Mae and Urias LeFevre plus Little Troy Lumpkin) in an almost solemn harmonization of In My Father's House Are Many Mansions. After that came M. C. Fowler's own group, the white-suited Oak Ridge Quartet, then the Blackwood Brothers, who brought down the house with Have You Talked to the Man Upstairs?, and Atlanta's own Statesmen, the local favorites. Among the evening's repertory: Riding the Range with Jesus and Everybody's Gonna Have a Wonderful Time up There...
...solemn occasion for the distinguished group of lowans who met on that day in 1847, under the oak trees just beyond the muddy main street of the pioneer Iowa City. Less than a year had passed since the state of Iowa had been admitted to the Union, but by order of the First General Assembly, the distinguished group of citizens were already looking over a site for the state university. "On that day," reported one of them later, "we met out-of-doors in a clearing in the hazel brush . . . Before the meeting, we got down on our knees...
...development of atomic power, unlike the production of atomic weapons, has only recently begun to show signs of real progress. The few experimental nuclear power reactors now in operation (e.g., at Arco. Idaho and Oak Ridge, Tenn.) have yet to match conventional power plants in cost per kilowatt. Last week the Army and the Atomic Energy Commission announced plans for a significant practical advance in the field of atomic power: a compact, 1.700-kilowatt nuclear power plant that can be broken down and airlifted piece by piece to U.S. bases overseas...
...Interior Department in 1936, there is a sixth-floor suite lovingly planned by Ickes for Ickes. Two private elevators lead to the Ickes suite; two Alaskan totem poles flank the entry hall, 55 feet long. Beyond come stenographic offices and then the Secretary's private office: walnut-floored, oak-paneled and immense (960 sq. ft., as much as a five-room house). Near by are the private aide's office, private dining room, private conference room (which Ickes sometimes used as his bedroom) and private bathroom (where Ickes used to wipe his feet happily on a bath...
Cover-Up. Paper-thin. 3/4-in.-wide strips of wood with adhesive backing for finishing off edges of plywood and other woods were introduced by Seattle's Puget Modern, Inc. Called "Wood Tape.'' the wood strips come in fir, mahogany, birch, walnut and oak, are applied by thumb pressure. Price...