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...week, Irwin ("Pants") Paschon, the line's striking head timekeeper, got a telephone call at his Peoria home. An anonymous voice said: "You're going to get what the picket shanty got." Next day Pants Paschon and a score of fellow pickets watched a strange-looking train pull out of the T.P. & W.'s East Peoria yards. Ahead of the locomotive was an armored gondola. Behind the engine were three freight cars and a steel caboose. The train carried six crewmen, 14 guards and some guns...
Young Donald ran home for a toboggan. Mother & son strained and tugged to pull Hutt up the icy hill, gave up, exhausted. They carted down blankets, built a fire, heated rocks to keep the wounded man warm. Then, as the boy kept solitary watch, Mrs. Hutt stumbled back to the lighthouse, desperately signaled to the mainland by blacking out the light with a curtain. She sounded the fog alarm, built seven brush fires on the hill. No help came. At 10 o'clock next morning Hutt died...
...stunt might work. Even pre-atom explosives can toss fragments fast enough (1½ miles a second) to free them from the moon's puny pull. Some scientists believe that meteors continually knock chips from the moon's jagged mountains; the chips then head for the center of the earth and fall near the equator as fused, glassy blobs called "tektites...
Nearest goal for spaceships is the boundary where the earth's gravitational pull and the moon's are equally strong. This "neutral point" comes closest to the earth (160,000 mi.) when the moon's rather feeble attraction is reinforced by that of the sun directly behind it. So a space-voyage to the moon should be made when the moon is "new" and almost in line with the sun. Voyages to Venus, Mars and other planets have been plotted by similar calculations. They would take more time, not much more energy...
Trailing by four points at the midway mark, Coach Dick Corchoran's fast-breaking quintet took just three minutes to pull ahead of the Crimson, Walt McCurdy's basket making the score 47 to 46. They kept their lead--ranging from one to five point's margin--until the last two minutes of play, when a tap-in by Lew Decsi plus two foul shots and one field goal by Gray put the Cantabs back into the game; then the former Bowling Green ace put on a one-man freezing act to put the game...