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...tornado smashed in, the high steel pyramid doubled into an inverted-V. Randall straightened up, unhurt. Up Shinns Run, the storm swirled across the countryside in a path 300 yards wide, leveling trees, houses and fences as if an army of bulldozers had streaked through the valley. At Boothsville, the tornado uprooted a new $250,000 pumping station, and slammed it against a hillside. An 80-lb. wrench lit in a field a half-mile away. Rescue workers counted 58 dead from the "Shinnston Tornado," worst in West Virginia's history...
When founding father Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (N. Lenin) died 20 years ago last week, Russia's foremost biochemist and anatomist were ordered to preserve the frail little man's mortal remains for posterity. A black and red marble pyramid was erected on Moscow's Red Square. Inside the embalmed body was laid out, under glass, in a quiet vault where the people could file silently by. War closed the tomb's door, but last week Moscow scientists made their annual report: "Excellent color in the skin, firmness and elasticity of connective tissues, flexibility of the joints...
...home, football is the fall sport. The eight-team Pyramid League drew more than 100.000 spectators. League leaders were the undefeated Rebels, composed mainly of former Texas college stars, who trounced the R.A.F. last week At first, the R.A.F. thought footbalL was a sissy game. Pointing to padless rugby, they laughed at shoulder and hip pads offered by the Rebels. After the first practices, half the squad admitted their misjudgment, accepted the Rebels' offer. The other half was in the hospital...
Hidden History. Behind the New Georgia job lay a long-secret pyramid of accomplishment. Not until the A.A.C.S. held its first convention a few weeks ago at its Asheville (N.C.) headquarters did the Air Forces decide that the story of the world's largest communications system could now be told...
...Nile Valley. Some of Photographer Hoyningen-Huene's dramatically lighted pictures were made in Egypt, some among the monumental Egyptian sculptures now in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. One of the book's more striking pictures is a restatement of an old theme: Instead of snapping the Pyramid of Cheops, Huene photographs its huge triangular shadow partially blacking the gleaming modern town at its base...