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Since the '30s, prospectors have known that there were untold thousands of tons of one of the finest natural fertilizers packed in the caves, in some places 70 ft. deep. The problem was to get it out. Various companies tried to dragline the guano out of the caves, lower it to the canyon floor, then float it down the river on barges. The Colorado's raging moods queered that plan. Others tried to ferry it out by helicopter and by light planes; one company managed to fly out 400 tons, a ton at a time, before the canyon...
...wise to conspire with contestants to control the outcome. But there are many roundabout ways to change the fate of any quiz whiz on the high-priced shows. In their desire to keep their audiences, many producers use odd methods both to keep and lose contestants. For a heretofore untold story of how they do it, and the answer to a question that has tickled the curiosity of millions of TV watchers, see TV & RADIO, The $60 Million Question...
...kaffiyeh and flowing robes who stirred up as much fascination and comment as though he had fluttered to earth on the magic carpet with which most cartoonists endowed him. Saud ibn Abdul Aziz al Faisal al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, leader of uncounted millions of people, counter of untold millions of dollars, prodigious master of a prolific harem, had come to call on the President of the U.S. He arrived on the U.S. liner Constitution, said his farewell to the ship's hands with gifts of money and gold watches, stepped ashore into a green-and-white tent...
President Eisenhower last week backed up Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Marion Folsom in a plea for prompt use of the 17 million doses of polio vaccine now stockpiled by manufacturers, plus untold millions in drugstore and health-department refrigerators. Targets: children who have had less than the recommended three shots, and adults, who are in time to get three shots before midsummer if they act promptly...
Ever aware of the necessity to make taxpaying as painless as possible,* the I.R.S. also announced a new timesaving device. Taxpayers need no longer make out their checks to "District Director of Internal Revenue." Suggests the bureau: just write "Internal Revenue Service," and save untold molecules...