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...ride, it had turned brown, brown with black racing stripes. Come to find out the driver carried his organic fertilizer around back there, mostly cow manure, that is, with pig and chicken droppings thrown in as a kicker. But you couldn't ask for a more pleasant ride--Mt. Pisgah National Forest, hills and dales, glinting little trickles sliding down valleys, evergreen air with the smell of steaming highway...
...laboratory assignment in the fall. Enders did not leap at the offer; he moves too thoughtfully and slowly for that. But he took it. In May 1928 he wrote to a friend: "This antipodal revolution of my studies has been of large value in helping me to obtain that Pisgah* sight of things and people that perhaps is the ultimate aim of my apparently inconsistent, faltering and obscure action." In 1930, at the age of 33, Enders got a Ph.D. in microbiology with a thesis on anaphylaxis (severe allergic reaction...
Atlanta Correspondent Spencer L. Davidson drove into the Pisgah National Forest at the southern end of the Appalachians; Detroit Correspondent Nick Thimmesch made the rounds in Upper Michigan's Hiawatha National Forest; Denver Bureau Chief Barren Beshoar headed into the San Juan Mountains for three days; Albuquerque Correspondent Arch Napier trekked through New Mexico's Carson National Forest. In Washington, Bureau Chief John L. Steele mopped his brow, thought warmly of his colleagues in the cool forests, and with Chief Forester Richard E. McArdle summed up the purpose of McArdle's far-reaching domain...
...quiet blue haze of North Carolina's high Pisgah National Forest, Ranger Ted Seely, 51, brier pipe in mouth, tramped through tree-darkened groves where waterfalls trickled down slopes and an occasional deer or groundhog darted into a clearing. His top worry of the day was checking the waters of the Pigeon, Hominy, Davidson and other rivers to be sure that they were flowing silt-free; miles below three North Carolina communities and some of the state's biggest paper, cellophane, rayon and nylon plants were depending on a steady 100 million gallons daily...
...Rock. Near Tallahassee, Fla., members of the Pisgah Methodist Church listened to a sermon titled "Build Your Church on a Firm Foundation," then crawled under the building to get folding tables for a church dinner, found a 250-gallon cache of moonshine whisky...