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...since the gift did not include the Britannica's (i.e., Sears's) working capital, rich U.C.'s trustees thought they might be getting a pig in a poke. They did not want to risk endowment funds on a property that had long had more cachet than cash (though its domestic sales last year were over $4,000,000, Sears prudently carried the Britannica on its books at $1). Result: Bill Benton himself agreed to put up whatever might be needed to keep it going, took an unnamed percentage of the stock from U.C. to back his investment...
...depend on their-engineers to do it. One detector is a sort of divining rod that works on an electromagnetic circuit, creates a buzz in the engineer's earphones when held over a buried mine. Such equipment is cumbersome on a battlefield, and British sappers prefer the old poke-&-dig method (see cut). Once the mines are discovered, each-whether there are 250 or 25,000-must be dug up with a fine touch...
...Chicago for four days and then to Manhattan for six went thousands of disciplined Salvationists to attend the Army's Central and Eastern Territorial Congresses and see their worldwide leader. The men were in high, stiff-necked uniforms, the lassies in black-&-red poke bonnets, long-skirted uniform dresses. They went early to every meeting, between sessions ate at recommended restaurants, sat stiffly in lounges. At the meetings they heard General and Mrs. Carpenter, accompanied by the whole staff of territorial officers. Both the Carpenters talked long and low, preached little, preferred to report the Salvation Army...
...fourth dimension among cuckoo problems, that is still controversial. The Third Method is used when a cuckoo encounters a nest with a very small or tortuous entrance. Unable to squat or cling, the cuckoo flutters to the ground, lays an egg, is thought by some to swallow it, then poke her long bill and neck into the nest opening, and regurgitate...
Three years ago Africa's strategic potentialities were almost untouched. Now airfields pock equatorial jungle and flinty desert, hop-stops for U.S. planes ferried across the South Atlantic bound for Egypt and the Middle East. Gun snouts poke out of many an African harbor protecting supply bases and ports where vital convoys collect. U.S., British, Free French and Belgian officials shuttle across the once dark continent that is dark no longer...