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Married to Part-time Painter Anne Barstow, has three children: David, 20, of the Coldstream Guards; Clarissa, 17, student at the Sorbonne; Antonia, 9. No stuffed shirt, he has an impressive reputation for ability to short-circuit gobbledygook, is a good mixer, relishes a chance to live in Washington, where he feels the steamy summer climate will be no great bother because, as he hears it: "You go from one air-conditioned room to another." Said he on his arrival: "If the prospects of peace and justice are to be good, it will depend on the extent" to which...
Bicycle Lake, near Barstow on California's Mojave Desert, is no place for canoes or water skiing. It is a shallow depression normally filled with 5,000 sq. yds. of dry, cracked mud. Once in a great while rain covers its surface with an inch or so of water, which evaporates in days. The rest of the time the "lake" is as dry as a stove...
...friendship with the great deserts of the Southwest. Springs and river water from the Colorado, Mojave,* Verde, Salt and Gila gave rise to settlements and small farming districts. Deep wells supported a slowly growing population, clustered along well-traveled desert highways in a few centers-Tucson, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Barstow. In the mountains, miners hammered away at sun-baked mineral vaults, and on the sandy desert floor men learned to irrigate and raise truck crops, cotton, dates and citrus trees...
...clear, dry weather and year-round sunshine, were the first to move out in expansive style. They sank hundreds of wells, established mushrooming service installations: Edwards and George Air Force Bases in the Mojave, the U.S. Naval Ordnance Test Station near Inyokern, the Army's Camp Irwin at Barstow, Marine Corps depots and bases at Mojave, Barstow and Twenty-nine Palms, and other big bases at Las Vegas and in the Arizona Desert around Tucson and Phoenix. At Frenchman Flat, 70 miles north of Las Vegas, the AEC set up its nuclear-weapons test site...
...complete Beethoven Quartet issues. When quizzed about some rare or new release that he knows absolutely nothing about, the good Diskman replies "in a thinly disguised tone of contempt: 'Sorry, I haven't gotten around to that yet. I've been busy comparing the new Barstow Quartet series with the earlier complete Beethovens. Takes a while, y' know...