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Forty-one years ago in dingy Pigeon Run, Ohio, when Ben Fairless was 5, his father swore that the boy should never go into the mines. He never did. After high school he taught until he had some money saved, then went off to study engineering at the College of Wooster and Ohio Northern University. Up, up, up the industrial ladder he climbed-vice president & general manager of United Alloy Co. at 36, president of Central Alloy Steel Corp. soon thereafter, executive vice president of Republic Steel at 40. Finally, at 45, the boy from Pigeon Run became president...
...have made no secret of their plans to attack the Soviet Union. . . . They are viciously sharpening their swords!" This was followed by what was said to be historically the first intimation that the Red Army, always described by Communist orators as "purely defensive," now seems to have in the pigeon holes of its General Staff plans for an offensive war on foreign soil. This is such a reversal of Old Bolshevik tenets that New Bolshevik ''Klim" Voroshilov had to weasel cautiously into it thus: "Any attack on the territory of workers and peasants will be repulsed with...
...sufficient nuggets of specialized knowledge, and correlating them with the main streams of life. The thought is a variation on a familiar theme; the chord has been struck by President Conant time and time again. It is, today, most concretely expressed in the University Professorships which require men without pigeon-holed ideas but with great synthesizing powers...
...cash for being judged the best bird of his breed, the best old Owl and the best old African Owl. Had the Parlor Rollers in last week's show been capable of reversing their situation instead of themselves, they would doubtless have picked, as the best pigeon judge in the U. S., a precise mild-mannered expert who, unlike the rest of his breed, judged not one or two classes but about 100, or one-third of the show's total. He was Jacob Justin Keifer, only professional pigeon judge in the U. S. who knows enough about...
...Runt is pigeon English for Ront, name of a German breed...