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Died. Earl Snell, 52, governor of Oregon; in a hunting-trip plane crash; on a plateau in southern Oregon. Killed in the same crash: State Senate President Marshall Cornett, 49, next in line of succession for the governorship; Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell Jr., 41, who had thought of running for governor in 1951, after the expiration of Snell's term...
...Allen Matthews was the oldest man in his Marine company, and known to the rest as "Pop." By the twelfth day of the battle for Iwo Jima, only three men were left of his 32-man platoon. Then, from Iwo's craggy, ridge-locked plateau came the whee-ee-eet-whee-ee-eet of the moaning Minnies.* There was a moment of blackness, a scream, and then silence...
Hackett will build the new school on a wooded Riverdale plateau overlooking New York's Hudson River. He plans to have 600 teen-age students: 200 from New York City, 200 from the rest of the U.S., 200 from Europe, Latin America, Asia. In ten polyglot residences he will mix them well, hopes to transform them into citizens of the world. Says he: "This won't be an international school. 'International' has bad connotations these days. We want to transcend nations...
...lofty plateau of Mexico the rains had begun to fall. They heralded the end of the dry season and of the dust clouds raised by the afternoon wind from the cornfields and the green rows of the maguey. At Balbuena Airport, aerologists scanned their weather charts, for next week Miguel Aléman, 47th President of Mexico, will board the Sacred Cow to fly north on a friendly visit to Harry Truman, his guest last month in the ancient City of Mexico...
From Umtata, bringing the showers with him, the Royal Rainmaker and his family chuffed northward in their cream-&-gold train to the high plateau of the Orange...