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...figure they had enclosed. By a technique refined by Archaeologist Amedeo Maiuri. currently in charge of Pompeii excavations, the presence of the ash cavities is detected by cautiously tapping the ground with blunted pickaxes. When the excavators spot a hollow, they drill several holes through the stratum of ash, pour thinned plaster of Paris into the cavity. After allowing the plaster time to harden, workers can chip away the surrounding ash to uncover a cast of the eruption victim...
...rush, the reporters manage to pour out a steady flow of copy: 80,000 words a day from Stevenson, 40,000 from Nixon, 15,000 from Kefauver. Privately, though 27 felt uncertain about the election's outcome, 36 out of the 44 who ventured a forecast picked the candidate who has yet to hit the campaign trail: President Eisenhower...
...when Jacob Mayer of the Ruhr's Bochumer Verein steelworks discovered a way to pour white-hot liquid steel into molds and cast the world's first steel bell, other foundrymen could not believe it. At the Paris Exposition of 1855 they launched an investigation, ran chemical tests, were persuaded that the bells were not cast-iron fakeries only after sledge hammers failed to crack them. Last week Bochumer Verein für Gusstahlfabrikation, A.G.,* once again amazed steelmen. Out of its mill came the largest piece of cast steel ever made-a rolling mill foundation block (housing...
Soil-bank payments will begin in September or October, and they will pour into the hardest-hit areas in the pivotal Midwestern states; e.g., Iowa stands to get about $39 million, Nebraska some $32 million. Certainly the Republicans would have been in trouble without the soil bank, but with it these normally Republican states seem likely to stay that way. Most farmers like the idea of the soil bank; they clearly identify it with the Eisenhower Administration. They believe it is good for the land, good for income, and the first hopeful attack they have yet seen on the haunting...
...Pour the crimson in me, Jimson...