What did the Des Moines Register article about the Dutch scientist say according to Les?
The Des Moines Register reported that a Dutch scientist had perfected an economical process to make wood a better armor than steel. The article said the Russian army quickly adopted it. The reader recalled taking it with a grain of salt, since people can write anything.
Les explains that back in the late 1960s, while still living in Iowa, he remembered a news item in the Des Moines Register, the paper of choice at that time. The article said a Dutch scientist had perfected some sort of process where he could actually make wood a better armor than steel, and it was a very economical process. The Russian army, according to the article, just gobbled that thing up. Les says that when he first read it, he took it with a grain of salt, because as Iris always says, people can write anything. He later connects this to another Des Moines Register clipping he carried in his Bible until it turned yellow, about an Israeli general after the Six Day War.