Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the gin mills of Tijuana and the cotton gins of Mexicali, a green stain of prosperity is spreading south from the U.S. border through Mexico's newest state, Baja California Norte (the 29th, established in 1951). Along the northern half of the mountain-spined peninsula, water is flowing from new wells through new irrigation ditches, turning deserts where the Colorado enters the Gulf of California into fields of cotton, plots of tomatoes and the purple traceries, of grapevines. Mexican and U.S. farmers, industrialists and businessmen are laying out factories, hotels, lawns, streets and truck gardens with assembly-line...
...jammed onto an island 14 by 21 miles in size, Barbados is still among the poorer areas of the West Indies. Its best hope: relaxation of immigration bars by other islands once federation begins working. Adams will be among the top three men in the dominant Federal Labor Party, along with Jamaica's Norman Manley and Trinidad's Eric Williams. But he plans to stick to his local job. "If I went to the federal Parliament," he says, "I would be betraying Barbados...
...University of Vermont, Carlson has done his best to give his students a better education. But though he has accomplished much, he has been constantly frustrated by the chronic feud between his trustees and the State Board of Regents. Worse still is a dilemma that has faced S.U.N.Y. all along: Should it try to be a real university, or merely continue to offer fringe programs, while leaving the real job of education to the state's private campuses...
Adman Lasker at 64 plunged into the market, convinced that the world of advertising art had all along been drawing its ideas from the prime originators of modern painting. In the next eight years he amassed a spectacular collection ranging from an 1834 Corot to a 1950 Joán Miró. The results, shown by the 60 color plates of The Albert D. Lasker Collection (Simon & Schuster; $20), make one of the handsomest art books of the season...
Lasker's last major purchase before his death in 1952 was one of his happiest: Vincent van Gogh's White Roses (opposite). Along with its companion piece on the same subject, owned by New York's Governor Averell Harriman, it is one of the most serene, glowing and untroubled canvases Van Gogh ever painted. It carries with it Van Gogh's sense of joyous (though temporary) release from an attack of madness that the painter described when he wrote to his brother from Saint-Rémy two months before his suicide: "That horrible attack...