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American High Commissioner to Germany John J. McCloy, who likes his off-duty muscle-flexing (tennis, touch football), took his wife & two children for skiing on Kreuzeck Mountain in the Bavarian Alps. First day out, McCloy took a tumble, finished the run on rescue sled and cable car, boarded his special train to Munich, where Army doctors announced he had a minor ankle fracture...
Family Background: Born Feb. 16, 1904, in Milwaukee, of Scotch-Irish parents. His great-uncle, George Kennan, traveled by dog sled 5,000 miles through Czarist Russia on an abortive project to link Moscow and the U.S. by a Siberian-Alaskan telegraph line, wrote an anti-Czarist book, Siberia and the Exile System...
...million hectares under cultivation. The Turk is a hard worker and he's used to sacrifice. Last month, the central Anatolian plain was seething with harvest activity. Though 1,283 ECA combines have been imported since 1948, most of the threshing is done by ancient methods. Oxen pull sleds, equipped with sharp flint points, around & around in the harvested wheat stocks, cutting them apart. Then the peasant and his family toss the grain into the air, allowing the wind, as it has for centuries, to separate wheat from chaff. (Sometimes there is the incongruity of a flint sled being...
...done it? Merk, it was said, had employed a brawny Eskimo guide named Owtaluk, a native of Kodiak, to drive him to class in a sled drawn by a dozen Eskimo dogs...
People living along the route reported seeing such a sled that morning and hearing the driver's cries of "Much, you huskies, Mush...