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...Position Charlie"-which will consist only of two beachhead perimeters, one around Seoul and Inchon, the other one at Pusan (see map) which U.N. forces still hold. If the Chinese move in while the allies hold perimeters at Seoul and Pusan, they will expose themselves to the same sort of flanking situation that routed the North Koreans last September...
Sometimes they merely gave advice on what sort of furniture to buy, what soundproofing, chalkboards or gym floors. In overcrowded towns, they analyzed population trends, decided just how much more space each school district would need to take care of its students properly. In the town of Soquel, for instance, they found that the elementary-school population had risen more than 16% in a single year, that the school had tried to make room for 282 more pupils than it should, and that it had only half the desirable amount of playground space. In Los Altos, the Stanford group recommended...
...Caddigan, who created Captain Video in 1949, explains: "The western is there to give us the pace and action that we can't get in a live studio production. The hero of the western is always supposed to be an agent of Captain Video's-that sort of ties it together...
Large nuclear reactors need vast quantities of cooling water, and it must be water of a very special sort. The plutonium plant at Hanford, Wash. was built there because of the Columbia River, but Columbia water did not prove entirely satisfactory. Though clear and cold and plentiful, it contains a large amount of dissolved solids, some of which become radioactive when they are carried through the reactors...
Once the Kettle. This sort of thing may strike the average man as harmless pother, but not Author Rinn. At 82, he is a onetime Manhattan produce broker and skilled amateur magician who has spent most of a lifetime trying to expose fake mediums as "the vilest gang of crooks that ever lived." No magician at writing a book, Rinn has nonetheless succeeded in presenting a bulky and formidable blast against spiritualism in all its forms...