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Mining Cerro Bolívar will be no easy task. Giant power shovels (the first were arriving this month) will scoop up blasted ore and load it on to trucks which will carry it to the railway (now being built). The 10,000-ton ore trains will roll through the chaparral 90 miles northeast to the black Caroni River, tributary of the Orinoco. For the workers a new town, Ciudad Piar, is sprouting at the foot of Cerro Bolívar, and a new port, Puerto Ordaz, has already been built on the Caroni...
...another meeting in Atlantic City, the Association of American Physicians (dubbed, willy-nilly, "the Old Turks") heard about a new disease with a name like a Greek railway station: agammaglobulinemia. This is the condition which exists, said Dr. Charles A. Janeway of Harvard Medical School, when a patient lacks his natural share of gamma globulin, the immunity-carrying element in human blood. So far, all such patients have proved to be male...
Torsion, Crystallic Image, Construction in Space with Crystal Center. With their bridges and platforms, their delicate plastic cutouts, their gleaming spider webs of plastic thread, they tend to look like the inner ears of a robot or like railway stations in some suburb on Mars...
...served as state senator and state supreme court justice. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1926, he became a powerful figure in his second term, was in the lawmaking forefront of F.D.R.'s "100 days," was thereafter a leader in getting on the books such laws as the Railway Pension Act (1934), Social Security Act (1935), low-rent housing and antilynching laws. Aging and in ill health in 1949, Bob Wagner retired from the Senate with these words: "I have had my fair share of shining hours...
...Adolf Hitler's old generals held a staff conference with his top officers. Elsewhere in the city, some 200 other officers and men of the Wehrmacht Special Division R (for Russian) gathered in study groups and pored over military textbooks. By day, they were grocery clerks, railway engineers or textile workers; by night, they were heel-clicking soldiers unswervingly loyal to a general, who calls himself Arthur Holmston...