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...Augusta, Ga. this week, an invading army of engineers, builders and technicians jammed the city's hotels and spare rooms to the rafters. Across the Savannah River in South Carolina, the aluminum glint of hundreds of trailers winked among the pecan groves. Giant bulldozers ripped through slash pine and red clay, pushing a four-lane, 20-mile express highway from North Augusta to Ellenton (pop. 700), a town soon destined to disappear before the bulldozers' onrush...
...Ranas won the championship of Nepal in a gory elimination tournament in 1846. The reigning monarch at that time was Rajendra Bikram Sahi, a blue-blooded Rajput (Hindu warrior caste) and a descendant of Vishnu the Lifesaver. For all that, the King was nuttier than a pecan tree in October. He and the Queen persuaded one of their generals, Jung Bahadur Rana, to murder their Prime Minister, who happened to be Jung Bahadur's uncle. Then Jung Bahadur helped the King murder the Queen's lover. She was put out about this, but not at the King...
...Louis: C. Ford Morrill '34, 1601 Railway Exchange Building; Southern California: December 29, Wayne P. Smith '93, 832 11th Street, Santa Monica, California; Syracuse, New York: December 24, E. Tefft Barker '37, Hiscock, Cowie, Bruce, Lee and Mawhinney; Texarkana, Arkansas: Leroy Autrey, 2402 Pecan Street...
Chert's French Creole Pecan Pie ("My great-grandmother said her mother's family had the recipe . . . after eating, it is usually best to pull up an easy chair and relax...
...pecan free in Bixby, Oklahoma, won a clear-cut decision by a fall over 155-pound wrestler Sandy Jones on Tuesday, December 23, and succeeded in putting Chief Boston's sophomore ace on the injured list for the rest of the season...