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...fields to the border at Socompa. But the Argentines had to push up through the barren, eroded land that the early Spaniards called "the country of desperation and death." Through the red-rock canyon of Quebrada del Toro, a 14,000-foot-high waste of salt desert, and along windswept slopes the construction crews fought their way, cutting 23 tunnels through the Andean rock and throwing bridges across 36 chasms. In summer they battled thirst, in winter the dry snow wind (viento bianco) that blows day & night. Sometimes construction was halted for months on end because the Chilean and Argentine...
...noisiest journalistic joust of the decade, the battle began three days before Pearl Harbor, when a rich newcomer, Marshall Field, started his liberal Chicago Sun to fight McCormick's well-entrenched, isolationist Tribune. One bitter morning last week, while frozen-fingered printers picketed Field's plant on windswept Wacker Drive, the battle ended. The Sun gave up the ghost and merged with Field's afternoon tabloid Times. This week, when the Sun & Times went on the newsstands, there were few recognizable Sunbeams...
...week, from a rural hospital bed to which she had retired with a nervous breakdown, daughter Iris corroborated her mother's charge. She remembered the incidents well because she herself, at the age of 13, had helped to deliver one of the babies on the family's windswept farm in Corangie. Next day she had asked her mother whether she should bathe the child. "You needn't bother," Audley Bennet told her daughter wearily. "Dad drowned...
This was the last big weekend for the little boys who scramble for pennies along the trolley route from Yale out to the Bowl. The open trolleys, with raccoon coats and windswept skirts, clinging to the sides, are officially a thing of the past. People just don't take the trouble to pay for their ride, so there'll be shiny new busses by next fall...
...Crash. There was only one break in this pastoral routine. This week, Harold Stassen flew to Flat Top, W. Va., for a long-planned engagement to address the reunion of the famed Lilly family.* Standing on windswept Flat Top Mountain, he told thousands of Lillyans of his interview last spring with Generalissimo Stalin in the Kremlin. He said Stalin asked him if he expected an economic crash in the U.S. and that he replied: "No, I am confident that we have found the way to improve our system of government. We are determined to find a way to bring prices...