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...soil and year-round sun, surrounded by the trackless wastes of the Colorado Desert. Irrigated by aqueducts from the Colorado River, this below-sea-level island in the desert yields $150 million-a-year worth of diversified agricultural products ranging from Syrian plumcots to Pakistani grapes, has nurtured a breed of rugged, Stetson-crowned farm millionaires. Last week, in a melee of millionaires, deputy sheriffs, pickets and Mexican braceros, labor violence reminiscent of the brawling 19303 erupted on the oasis...
Village blacksmiths are a dying breed, and so any village that still has one is obliged to direct tourists pridefully to his shop, even if he is not particularly good at making horseshoes. Something of the sort obtains with jokesmiths; not many comic novelists are left, and not many of these are very funny. Peter De Vries, perhaps the best of the lot, is often proudly accused of causing his readers to damage themselves with violent laughter, but in this book, at least, he is not guilty...
...Dwight Eisenhower's decision in October 1958 to suspend U.S. nuclear tests. But strong pressure in favor of more tests will come from some of Kennedy's nuclear and military advisers, who are eager to try out the so-called "neutron bomb" (TIME, Nov. 14)-a new breed of hydrogen weapon that is triggered by conventional explosives rather than nuclear fission. The ultimate in "clean" bombs (there is virtually no fallout), the neutron bomb is almost certainly under development by Russian scientists, and the U.S. cannot afford to linger much longer in testing...
...Yanked by her mother from progressive Brentwood ("when she discovered we were being taught to count with lima beans"), Brooke bounced back and forth between school and private tutors. After her divorce from Hayward, Margaret Sullavan moved to Connecticut, and Brooke went to a school unused to the Hollywood breed. Within six months after her arrival, Brooke recalls proudly, one teacher had a nervous breakdown. A little later Brooke was expelled from the Girl Scouts. Meanwhile, Mommy married Kenneth Wagg, then a director of Horlick's Malted Milk, and, insists Brooke, "we had nothing but malted milk...
...education of their children, but they cannot expect any return from their taxes." Denying equal aid to children in church-related schools, said Spellman, would deprive them of "freedom of mind and freedom of religion guaranteed by our country's Constitution." Should Congress do so, it would breed "thought control" by compelling a child "to attend a state school as a condition of sharing in education funds." Spellman's strong words were spoken at a windup meeting of his drive to raise $25 million for new Catholic high schools in New York-which he himself reported has been...