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Twenty workmen on The Mullet last week were busily employed by the Irish Land Commission dividing a large estate into small farms when they discovered, to their horror, that the government surveyor intended that a fence should be driven straight through a rath, or fairy fort. They promptly downed picks and shovels and folded their arms. Their foreman sent for a government inspector, a citified cynic who believed the rath was nothing more than an ancient burial mound. He suggested that the fence wire be strung over the rath instead of cutting through...
Inside the blockhouse an Air Force officer peered through a scope (roughly resembling a surveyor's transit), saw the wobbly bird, now three miles up, skitter outside the safety zone. Dutifully, he pressed the fatal button. An enormous blob of flame suddenly enwrapped the bird. A moment later, all that remained of the ingeniously concocted, $6,000,000 Atlas were some shreds of metal and a smudge of smoke in the misty...
...vote drive. In Wayne County a record 470,000 voters turned out, helped pick Democrats for superintendent of public instruction and three seats on the Supreme Court. So powerful was the governor's imprimatur that it even engineered a victory for 36-year-old Genesee County Surveyor John C. Mackie, whose qualifications to become state highway commissioner had been questioned by the Michigan Society of Professional Engineers...
...sometimes remarkably contemporary. He anticipated, for instance, the notion of the "other-directed" man-but with more affection for America than is usually shown by sociologists. In 1937 Wolfe argued that the standardization of U.S. life resulted from the fact that every American in a fundamental sense is a surveyor: "America has really never yet, in any profound and essential way, been explored-it has rather been surveyed. The first problem of the people who settled in this immense and spatial continent was not to explore it but to 'lay it out'-to find the shortest distance between...
...revolutionary fighting, but work now going on should open this stretch to traffic by May 1. At the other end of the Costa Rican sector, after a breathtaking mountain drive offering glimpses of two oceans, the highway dwindles into nothing more than 134 miles of lines on a surveyor's map. Current construction...