Couch, Missouri

Couch, an insignificant backwater in Arkansas, was chosen in 1943 as the site of an important meeting. Terence's general store hosted General Dwight Eisenhower, deposed Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, scientists Albert Einstein and Robert Goddard, defectors from the Race Straha and Vesstil, and Race expert Sam Yeager. These worthies gathered to analyze the Race ship which the defectors had brought to America, and reverse engineer equipment to match that of the Race.