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Traveling up to 100 miles behind enemy lines, Birch radioed back word on prime Japanese targets. He directed the building of three airstrips within enemy territory. For his work, Birch was awarded the Legion of Merit, got a posthumous Oak Leaf Cluster for "exceptionally meritorious service...
What atomic workers need is an artificial sixth sense-a cheap, reliable radiation sniffer capable of giving a timely warning of danger. Last week the Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced that it had developed just such a gadget. Unlike earlier devices, which are cumbersome, slow to report or have to be read with close attention, the O.R.N.L. "Personal Radiation Monitor" is no larger than a fountain pen and reacts unmistakably as soon as it scents trouble. Clipped to a lab worker's clothing, the monitor gives off high-pitched chirps and flashes an orange neon light whenever it detects...
...hustling to cash in on the publicity. The company's rockers, made of oak with a specially curved back to increase comfort, had usually been made in a natural light finish, sold for $24.95. In order to make them look more like Kennedy's chair, which he has had stained. P. & P. has added a chair with a dark, or antique, finish, sells it for $34.95. President William C. Page, 71, is stepping up production of P. & P.'s Kennedy-type rockers (it also makes chairs and stools) from 200 to 1,500 a month, raising...
...those 900 children whom Mrs. Katie Price delivered. No doubt many of them, like Miss Price and myself, attended Oak Park High School. And no doubt many students elsewhere who attended Southern segregated schools find themselves in situations similar to mine. In a Northern college, for the first time, I am wondering what went amiss, educationwise, in the past...
Downstairsville, there is a two-story, chandeliered, oak-paneled living room with teakwood floors and a trap door through which you can drop twelve feet into a kidney-shaped indoor pool. "That," I'll tell my visitors, "is where we throw the old, discarded girls." At the end of the pool is a waterfall, and you can swim through it twosies into a dark, warm grotto which has wide ledges at the sides, softened with plastic-cover-ed cushions...