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...McCook Knox set up even more barriers. Ramps had to be built to pull a camera off the street after the show got under way. A seven-story crane was moved into place to hoist a "cup" for relaying the TV signal out of the valley-like terrain of Georgetown. Just 45 minutes before show time, the Fire Department refused to let Morgan pull the switches on the TV equipment because it might overload the electrical circuits. Somebody talked the fire inspectors into going away while the technicians figured out an answer; when the inspectors came back, the show...
...giant is powered by two 400-h.p. diesel generators that provide power for all 24 of the freighter's 7-ft.-4-in. pneumatic-tired wheels. The monster has a range of 1,000 miles, requires neither rails nor road and can travel over almost any kind of terrain at a speed of 15 m.p.h. The engine cab contains insulated sleeping quarters for four men. To get the giant from Texas to Alaska, Le Tourneau had to ship it on specially built flatcars to Seattle, from there Alaskan Freight will move it to Alaska by boat...
...seat in the lower house. Both, of course, ran as Democrats. Dick has said that people wonder why they insist on sticking to a party label that was such a liability in Oregon. He explains: "Evidently martyrdom suits our personalities. Maurine and I enjoy being caribou in timberwolf terrain. It gives us a sense of high adventure and derring-do." During legislative sessions in Salem, the Neubergers lived in a motel and built up a commendable liberal record (and a basic research for magazine articles) as an aggressive, incorruptible legislative team...
Confidence. In Paris, as he had promised he would, Mendès-France got the Assembly to schedule debate on the Paris agreements the week of Dec. 13. Then he plunged into what the French call the terrain de l'embuscade (ambush country) of French politics-the budget. Most of France's 19 postwar governments have been trapped and brought down not on the high ground of national or foreign policy, but in the tricky thickets of the budget...
...Favorites. Scandinavians take a special delight in the threefold challenge of orienteering: the struggle against natural obstacles, the physical competition against fellow racers, and the intellectual exercise of trying to choose the best route across strange terrain. But most of all, they relish the idea that in any race it is almost impossible to pick a favorite. The fastest runners can get bogged down in unexpectedly sloppy going; the cleverest map readers can lose precious minutes searching for diabolically hidden check points...