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...Yankee Exodus has some arid stretches, notably the endless lists of early settlers' names that appear in every chapter. But dozens of such rousingly written real life tales as the saga of Seattle's Mercer Girls will be bounty enough for readers who follow the Yankee trails all the way West...
...doubted whether it was wise to try to keep 7,000,000 former Nazi Party members (altogether some 25 million people, counting dependents) "outside the community, or outcasts from it." He was prepared to plead for forgiveness: "We would indeed leave arid the fields in which the Germans must plant the seeds of right thinking if those fields were parched by the withering materialism of revenge...
Both buildings had been designed by a distinguished international team of architects, headed by Wallace K. Harrison (who helped plan Rockefeller Center). When finished, the two would make a dramatic contrast, for while the Secretariat's skyscraper was high, thin arid rigid, the Assembly hall had the concave roof and sides of a low tarpaulin stretched from four corner posts-a difficult and perhaps inefficient construction to handle in stone. As ARCHITECTURAL FORUM put it, the Assembly building "marked an architectural shift-from emphasis on 'function' and structural logic to emphasis on form and the logic...
Rainmaker at Work. The great cloud-milking experiment was born last month when Mayor William O'Dwyer remembered how Nobel Prizewinning Scientist Irving Langmuir had caused 320 billion gallons of rain (enough to fill New York's reservoirs with 60 billion gallons to spare) to fall on arid New Mexico by burning $20 worth of silver iodide. Scientist Langmuir, just retired from General Electric Research Laboratory at 68, did not feel up to taking on New York's job himself, but on his recommendation the city hired as its chief rainmaker a 35-year-old, Harvard-trained...
Behind the Screen. Then the Congressmen went after facts, and what they found told an entirely different story about the domain of old Joe Di Giorgio, the Sicilian immigrant who had drilled wells, laid miles of underground pipe and invested $9.7 million to turn a plot of arid land into a production line of agriculture (TIME, March 11, 1946). Di Giorgio wages had always been as good as any in the valley (currently 80? to $1.10 per hour); Di Giorgio had voluntarily carried workmen's compensation insurance for his employees. His homes for workers were no palaces (some were...