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...half a century Germany's diplomats and big industrialists, deep in Drang nach Osten (Drive to the East), talked of a Berlin-to-Baghdad railway. Kaiser Wilhelm II rode through the sweltering streets of Damascus one day in 1898 to tell the citizens that Moslems "may rest assured that at all times the German Emperor will be their friend." Hitler took up where Wilhelm II left off: by the time the Nazis invaded Russia, Germany was dominating the markets of Turkey and Iran...
CHARLES RUFFIN HOOK JR., 38, vice president in charge of personnel of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., to be Deputy Postmaster General. Son of a wealthy Ohio industrialist (now board chairman of Armco Steel Corp.), handsome Charlie Hook married a Morgan heiress, is a popular and ornamental member of Cleveland society...
...cats that guarded Milan's dilapidated, bomb-scarred old Central Railway Station, the best and bravest was Momi, a dirty-grey draftee from the Milanese back alleys. Sallying forth on mission after mission from her base in Control Tower C, Momi did more than any of her comrades from the other six towers to rid the station of the army of rats which swarmed over it after the Allied bombings of 1943. She was quicker to dodge the trains, more artful in picking her way through the lethal maze of high tension lines, fiercer and more cunning...
...containing an elevator. But today this once revolutionary idea is old stuff, and superseded by the Fuller Geodesic Dome. The dome is as big as one likes, made up of small spherical triangles pinned together. In appropriate sizes, it can be made to shelter anything from newlyweds to a railway terminal with less weight and hence less cost, and, Bucky hopes, be more resistant to hurricanes or atomic-bomb blasts than conventional design's. "It would be a good moon structure too," said a Fuller enthusiast...
Thomas D. Cabot '19, Executive vice-President of Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc.; Frederick B. Whitman '19, President of the Western Pacific Railway Co.; Roy E. Larsen '21, President and Director of Time, Inc.; Joseph S. Clark, Jr. '23, Mayor of Philadelphia; Neil McElroy '25, President of Procter & Gamble Co.; and John W. Hallowell '31, Headmaster of Western Reserve Academy, Ohio...