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...Shaved Heads. The meeting began with a pair of comedians with shaved heads who did a scathing song & dance satire of Romulo. Sample: "Are you the author of I Saw Bataan Fall?" "Yes, sir." "Where were you when Bataan fell?" "I was hiding in a tunnel." The tunnel was Corregidor, the book's title was a little wrong, and the accusation was unfair, but it went over fine. Then the shaved heads took up a report that Romulo had plagiarized from Adlai Stevenson. "Why didn't you steal a speech from Eisenhower?" "Because I am going to lose...
...Secretary McKay, worried over charges that he opposes the development of natural resources, will soon announce support for two gigantic power and irrigation projects for the West. One is the Frying Pan-Arkansas project to transport water eastward from Frying Pan Creek, a tributary of the Colorado, through a tunnel under the Continental Divide to the Arkansas River, south of Denver. The other is the Upper Colorado project, calling for the building of ten dams, which could rival lower Colorado's Hoover (Boulder) Dam project, distribute water and power to Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and New Mexico. McKay hopes...
Super-Blower. For airplane research in supersonic speeds, Boeing Airplane Co. put into operation a wind tunnel whose 24-ft. fan is turned by two electric motors with 54,000 h.p. The fan can send air whistling through the tunnel at a maximum speed of 875 m.p.h. The tunnel can test scale-model planes with wing spans...
...floors under Lamont, the Houghton and Widener levels, are connected by tunnel to the other two libraries and are used for storage. At present they have room for 500,000 books...
...asked another man at the shop, "do you think I'm crazy or something?" He went on with the good life-dogged and dazed as a mine mule toiling along the familiar tunnel...