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...wisdom to the Senate of the U.S. Six times the people of Georgia had returned him to Washington, where he served with distinction on twelve committees, as chairman of five. In the winter of 1955 he was the ranking U.S. Senator, and as the Senate's president pro tern he stood fourth in line of succession to the presidency. Last week, on a warm winter's day in his home town of Vienna, Ga. (pop. 2,200), Senator Walter Franklin George, 77, submitted his good record and his good name once more to the voters of his state...
...your footnote relating to the Air Transport Command's solution of the sooty-tern problem on Ascension Island during the war: I have always heard rumors that they did a very thorough job of simply throwing rocks at the birds - in fact, they did so well that they left no tern unstoned...
...confused with the wingspread of the Air Force's "Goony Bird," the DC-3, which is 95 ft. *This tactic worked admirably during World War II in a similar situation on Ascension Island, involving sooty terns. Obviously convinced that one good tern deserves another, the birds multiplied so rapidly that they nearly took over Ascension, until the Air Transport Command began a program of egg-snatching...
...permanent steel stands proved only temporary. A brief 22 years after it put them up, Harvard decided it no longer needed them. The steel stands were tern down in 1951, once again giving the Stadium its classical horseshoe shape and reducing its seating capacity from 57,000 to 38,000. Sections of the steel stands have reappeared of late in so undignified a locale as the Little League Park in Medfield, behind the first and third base lines
...conscientious man, when I throw rocks at sea birds I leave no tern unstoned...