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...Originally, the Committee intended to concentrate on the South and the Far West, where selling and recruiting work is needed most. But the program has expanded in scope, so that members now represent 38 states--most of them midwestern and the group also does extensive work along the Atlantic seaboard...
...have attracted one Dayton student in every two or three years. But for the Class of 1956, 34 students from the Ohio city filed applications; 25 were admitted, with the fantastic number of four national scholarships. Toledo, Memphis, Miami, and Portland also showed considerable progress, while on the Atlantic seaboard, the North Shore and Westchester clubs have become particularly active...
Even in oil-rich West Texas, the area around Midland (pop. 34,256) had once given up hopes for oil. The land had been drilled repeatedly without luck. In 1943, Seaboard Oil found a promising rock formation, but no oil, on Abner Spraberry's farm. Not until 1948 did Wildcatter Arthur ("Tex") Harvey discover that the "Spraberry Trend," as the formation was named, was full of oil, though imprisoned in the fine-grained, hard-packed sands. Then, the new techniques of the industry came into play: soap & kerosene, pumped into the sandstone under tremendous pressure, loosened it enough...
When Dick was six, his father put the name of Russell on Georgia's map by incorporating a settlement a mile and a half east of Winder. It became a flag stop on the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's Atlanta line, so father Russell could commute to his office in Atlanta. Dick's mother, now frail and 84, still lives in Russell, Ga. (pop. 150) with her oldest grandson, Richard Russell Green...
...With Taft's victory in Illinois and Eisenhower's decision to return to the U.S., the Taft-Eisenhower battle has become a tense, tight fight right down to the last delegate. Most states with the big-and still wavering-blocs of delegates lie close to the U.S. seaboard. Taft's political future may well depend on his ability to fight his way out of the Midwest toward...