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...thing to draw a line on a neat, white map in a conference room. It is something else again to impose the line onto the patchwork of tiny vineyards, minute garden patches and chicken yards that speckle a Trieste hillside. Well armed with the tools of the surveyor's profession, a detachment of the border commission in charge of dividing Trieste between Italy and Yugoslavia arrived one day last week at the two-acre plot of Luca Eller, a 65-year-old farmer of Italian extraction. The commissioners discovered that the line laid out in the Trieste agreement would...
Today, peacetime flyers are finding Cessna's puddlejumpers just as useful. One California lumberman uses a Cessna 170 monoplane to check on his surveyor teams; a Texas undertaker even uses his Cessna as a flying hearse. With his new helicopters, jets and multi-engined transports, President Dwane Wallace takes a cheery view of the future. Says he: "In our business, it's early morning and the sun is shining...
Harold W. Stokes, Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Washington, was the surveyor, and his analysis is contained in an article entitled "College Athletics: Education or Show Business," which appears in the March issue of the Atlantic Monthly...
...Other Request? In Birmingham, Ala., after petitioning city officials to pave their street, three residents of 61st Street South were informed that, due to a surveyor's error, their homes had been built in what was technically the street, and they would have to move their houses, whether they wanted paving...
Wisdom of Savages. Colonel Percy Fawcett first came to South America as a surveyor for the Bolivian government. Even then, at age 39, he was a stern, solitary man with childlike eyes and a mystical longing for primitive things. He found them: crocodiles everywhere, spiders that can catch birds, anacondas more than 60 ft. long that wail disturbingly in the jungle night, bloodsucking cockroaches, 2-in. biting ants, hordes of vampire bats, rivers full of stingrays, electric eels and shoals of tiny, man-eating piranha...