Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Capsule of Canada. In a sense, B.C. is Canada in giant capsule form, a pioneer land where the frontiers are just starting to roll back. In the first 100 years British Columbians managed to plow only about 33% of the available farmland, utilize barely a fraction of their other known natural resources. Yet prosperity is a condition of life, to be greeted with the same calm pleasure as the monster 25-lb. brook trout (in the East a five-pounder is trophy size) hauled from the rivers...
...Body & Spirit." Today Fangio is the owner of a string of service stations. In his office last week, Businessman Fangio looked back over the career of Driver Fangio, and talked with a candor that he had seldom allowed himself while racing. Said he: "The exhilaration of racing a smooth-running car and the challenge of keeping in the lead had become drudgery, a constant effort and worry to give people who entrusted me with their cars and money the returns they expected. The joy of the first years became mere fatigue. Not only my body is tired but my spirit...
Lost Cheers. "But enthusiasm is not the only thing I lost. I lost my family too. In ten years, 20 of my racer pals died behind the wheel. Our reunions nowadays look like gatherings of war veterans who try but can't forget those who never came back. What is left? Money? I was born poor, and now I have more money than I can use. The exhilaration of coming in first, the cheering crowds? Tomorrow I could easily be second, then third, and eventually last. As for the cheering crowds, I never heard them. When I race...
...Fred's new partner, fitted into his new routines as easily as Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse ever fitted into the old. Jonah Jones, a beaming barrel of a man, demonstrated that a trumpet can almost talk, especially if it has Astaire's tireless feet to talk back. Fred, singing a medley of songs from past triumphs, nudged two generations of fans to misty nostalgia. Every dance number showed that TV choreography need not be uniformly awful; every stage effect taught the cameras new tricks...
...home in Marietta, Ohio, back in 1880, Charley Dawes outraged his family by playing the flute in the Democrats' campaign band, while his own father was running for Congress on the Republican ticket (he won). Later, Charles ("Hell 'n' Maria") Dawes became a Republican but stayed a flute player. He used his favorite instrument to relax from a hectic career during which he served seven Presidents-he started as McKinley's Comptroller of the Currency, was Vice President under Coolidge, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's for Hoover, left public life...