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...President, often disturbed by low-flying airplanes-even in his dreams (TIME, June 13)-signed an executive order roping off a wide section of Washington over which civilian pilots may not fly without special permission from the Secretary of Commerce. The area: a quarter-mile outside of the rectangle at whose corners stand the Union Station, the Capitol, the Naval Hospital, the White House...
...Davies made a final trip, which ended fortnight ago, through the Ukraine and the Black Sea area. To the inhabitants of Caucasian and Crimean ports the sight of the Davies 316-foot yacht Sea Cloud was a never-ending diversion. They thronged the piers to watch the Ambassador step from the yacht's speedy trim launch manned by snappily costumed, briskly saluting seamen...
With the dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay over the steamy Gran Chaco region still unsettled after three years' armistice, another long-disputed area last week loomed as a second Chaco. For almost 400 years the peoples of Ecuador and Peru have been squabbling over the Oriente, a dank, roadless, city-less jungle, which lies east of the Pacific Andes, and sprawls between the two little nations. The territory, about the size of New York, is now divided by a temporary demarcation line, pending final settlement under U. S. direction...
Trees, Some 8% of the earth's crust is made of aluminum (an ingredient of all clay), but only a small portion of it is extractable. A 24-square-mile area in Arkansas is the chief U. S. source of bauxite, from which aluminum is commercially derived. Mr. Rice says Alcoa controls 19? square miles of this supply, and also has vast foreign holdings. U. S. aluminum is made under the Hall and the Bradley processes. Alcoa got ownership of both patents around the turn of the century; then, realizing that when the patents expired it would no longer...
Neither set manufacturer has sets available except to order, neither can guarantee purchasers any regular schedule of telecasts for their receivers, since the only telecasting being done in the New York area is the strictly experimental work...