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Last week the radiotelephone that links up MacPherson's headquarters with his drillers in the field crackled out the news that oil was struck at last. MacPherson sped to the drilling site, found that the drills, at 3,500 ft., had bit into an oil pool that looked every bit as rich as the world's richest, the fabulous Burgan sands in Kuwait proper, 20 miles to the north of the Neutral Zone...
Blundell arrived in Kenya 18 years ago as a "farm pupil." During the war he bought the site of his present farm. It was virgin bush. Today it is a trim model farm, with neat contours and terraces, fields of asparagus (canned for export) and sleek Guernsey cattle. Relatively speaking, he is a liberal. That is to say, he thinks the whites should run Kenya with only a junior position for the Indians and the Africans (each of whom outnumber the whites). But at the same time he believes in uplift for the aborigines...
...grey-green desert basin at Yucca Flat, Nev., some 1,500 G.I.s and technical observers huddled face down in deep, narrow trenches. If they were tense and nervous, they had reason. Never before had willing men waited so near the site of an imminent atomic explosion. Only two miles away, an A-bomb (officially called a "Nuclear Diagnostic Device") was perched on a tall steel tower, 300 feet above "Ground Zero...
Curry disclosed that the Brattle Square site had been chosen over two other proposed locations, despite the fact that Harvard Square merchants opposed use of the parking space. They charged that the loss of parking space would curb their business...
...post office will be constructed on the City-owned Brattle Square parking lot, John Curry, City Manager, announced last night. The Cambridge City Council sold the site to contractor Frank Capaldi, who will erect the new building...