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...month or so, thought the owners of the Hazebrouck distillery in northern France. Yet their vats were guarded by special police, surrounded by high walls, and there seemed no opportunity for theft. Was there a leak? The Hazebrouck distillers drained off their largest vat. Peering into the darkness, workmen spied a small, shining object and uncovered the end of a metal tube. The tube led them under the distillery walls, 100 yds. along a ditch, across a meadow, into a garage on the national highway."Mon Dieu! What a scheme!" said an admiring Frenchman. "You just turn a spigot...
...iron was French, the limestone Belgian, the coke came from Holland and Germany. Yet the stream of molten metal, tapped last week by Italian workmen in the Luxembourg town of Esch, was steel that belonged to Europe-solid and symbolic evidence that the Schuman Plan dream is at last reality. Six nations, producing 20% of the world's steel, would henceforth pool their outputs, eliminate tariffs, surrender control (but not ownership) of their basic industries to a supranational High Authority, headed by a dapper Frenchman who hopes to forge not merely an industrial colossus...
...site in North Dakota and the new one in South Dakota are within Standing Rock Indian Reservation and thus on federal land. The Secretary of the Interior had agreed to the move. One morning last week, under cover of a blinding snow storm, Grey Eagle and a crew of workmen dug up Sitting Bull's bones, hurried them across the state line in a truck, reburied them, covered the grave with 20 tons of cement, and stationed an armed guard near by. Mobridge prepared to place a bust of Sitting Bull by Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski over the new grave...
Radcliffe's Bertram Hall was flooded yesterday as a foot of water from this week's snowfall seeped into the basement. Workmen were forced to drain the water through a hold chopped in the basement floor, and hoses were used to siphon the water on to the Quad...
...seemed finished President Frank McLaughlin of Puget Sound Power & Light Co. Washington's biggest private utility, finally threw in the towel last year after fighting a long, rearguard action against the Public Utility Districts. "Fighting them," said he, "is like trying to live in a house while the workmen are tearing it down...