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Night. A railway station at Cernauti, Rumania, onetime outpost of German culture in the East, now a hurtling trade centre at the base of the Carpathian Mountains. Rolling hills in the background, overshadowed by the black mass of a 3,000-ft. peak; the Prut River flowing nearby. Enter Colonel Josef Beck, Foreign Minister of Poland. No longer the same man as in Act I and II, the Colonel is haggard, sleepless; the sardonic elegance that marked his appearance has vanished. With him is Marshal Smigly-Rydz, Commander in Chief of the Polish Armies, equally haggard, desperate...
Before plunging into the KFAR project, Cap Lathrop did considerable prospecting. He located every mine and outpost in the vast Alaskan interior within KFAR's expected range, which is more than the U. S. Government has ever done. For expected sponsors the census showed a potential audience of some 25,000, with a per capita buying power five times that of the average U. S. consumer and very little else to do evenings but listen to a radio. Expecting a short-wave network connection with some U. S. chain, KFAR nevertheless intends to broadcast home-made programs for Alaska...
...intellectuals into noting that there were literate settlements beyond Manhattan. But Populism was already dead and Garland was left like last year's scarecrow among the corn shocks. With the passing of the middle border he sought a substitute in the borderland of the spirits and its terrestrial outpost in Southern California. From there he still issues books on psychic research, whose pace and intentional humor recall the old Garland. Their unintentional humor now fetches many a chuckle...
...fact if this unusually cold weather keeps up, there should be skiing in the North right through April and May. The curtain to the ski season falls sometime in the middle of June at the last outpost of the sport in New England, Tuckerman's Ravine...
Behind most of Belgium's recent political troubles has been the rising strength of the Flemish-speaking people. From 1831, when Belgium gained her independence from The Netherlands, until 1914. Belgium's rulers considered the nation an outpost of France. French was then the sole official language. Flemish, as closely akin to Dutch as American is to English, was the language of servants and peasants...