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...chasm, they continued their explorations, found another pothole and lowered themselves through it into the lowest and biggest cave of all, a "cathedral of rock," perhaps 500 yds. long and 400 yds. wide. In a flare of magnesium, the explorers "were confronted with a panorama of rocky coagulations -slender stalactites, suspended like long wisps of straws from the majestic vaults, hanging curtains of stone, and broad, squat, dome-shaped stalagmites, looking like huge mushrooms growing on the yellowish bottom of the cave...
...began to hang the Brooklyn Bridge on a spider web of steel cables in 1868 . . . Major William LeBaron Jenny designed the first true steel-frame building in Chicago in 1883 . . . In the spring of 1896, Frank Lloyd Wright built a wooden windmill tower at Spring Green, Wis. It was slender and 60 ft. high, built of two-by-fours and wood sheathing anchored to a heavy stone foundation. The lightweight wood construction was designed in perfect tension balance, and it has withstood the storms for over half a century, far beyond the life of steel windmills built at the same...
Clutching a snake-headed bamboo cane, a slender, bespectacled Asian in a double-breasted blue suit and a green felt hat arrived in Washington last week; his presence brought to 78 the number of diplomatic missions in the capital. Ourot R. Souvannavong, a 45-year-old jurist, is the first minister to the U.S. from the Oregon-sized, jungle-blanketed kingdom of Laos in French Indo-China...
After the March election, Chile's Chamber of Deputies was split right down the middle: 73 for the government of President Carlos Ibafiez, 73 for the combined opposition. The. first by-election would obviously give one side a slender advantage. Last week it fell to the village (pop. 100) of Coihueco, at the foot of the snowy Andes 250 miles south of Santiago, to pick one more Deputy for Congress...
...little later, slender Major General Mohammed Naguib, front man in the military coup which toppled playboy King Farouk from his throne last July, went on the air as the Republic of Egypt's first Premier and President. ". . . We proclaim today," said he, "in the name of the people, abolition of the monarchy...