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Pine Slats. For the eventual conviction of the elusive John, the book largely credits a brilliant, scholarly xylotomist named Arthur Koehler, whose principal job was analyzing the one unmistakable clue left by the kidnaper: a crude wooden ladder that had been used to reach the nursery window. Koehler proved that the Southern pine slats in the ladder could only have been honed in one factory in South Carolina with a defective pulley on the planer, then traced the boards further to a lumberyard in The Bronx...
...moving some pictures around that night, the gallery's elaborate electronic alarm system was not turned on until late. In the men's room, police found marks on a radiator under a window. The thief could have climbed out that window and down a workman's ladder that had been left in the courtyard, then over a 12-ft. wall and out onto Orange Street, which is all but deserted in the evening...
...morning sun had already topped the mountains edging the Kazakhstan steppes, deep in southern Russia, when Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Titov, 26, rode to his waiting rocket in an eggshell-blue bus. Bulky in his orange spacesuit, Titov clambered up the gantry ladder and settled himself in the giant five-ton capsule perched on the rocket's nose. An attendant handed him a notebook labeled ''Log Book of the Spaceship Vostok II.'' With exaggerated care, Titov examined the pencil dangling from the log, and remembered: "Yuri Gagarin did not attach his pencil firmly and lost...
...native of Canada, "Mac" joined the sales staff of TIME in 1937, moved up the management ladder to various branch offices, and has been our top advertising executive since 1954. Under his leadership, TIME has achieved a uniquely strong advertising position. In the seven years since he became director (and as TIME'S circulation grew from 1,700,000 to 2,550,000), advertising revenue increased from $35 million to $51 million. TIME now ranks fourth among all maga zines in advertising revenue...
...smoke of war had cleared away. "My life has been backwards," he says. "Big success, retirement, and now I'm making an honest living." Starting a brand-new career three years ago at the Post-Dispatch, he has risen to the top of his profession, using as his ladder an inland newspaper that has always encouraged crusaders and viewed the nation and the world with "show me" detachment...