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...there is one thing that Clayesmore has plenty of, it is toads. Every winter hundreds of little corpses litter the highway, and hundreds of live toads congregate to breed in the school's lake or empty swimming pool. How do the toads get there? In 1950 Biology Teacher H. J. Moore collected a band of boys, started them on a Kinsey-type study of the annual migration. Through snow and sleet and dark of night, the study has gone on ever since...
Such are among the victor's spoils; but what is their course of action? Senate Leader Johnson has rejected, on the ground that it would breed dissension in the party, proposals that the Democrats work up a packaged program of their...
...fact was that the 1954 bull was a different breed from any other that had gone before. From almost every angle he seemed made of muscle. He stood against the background of an entirely new economy made up of many industries that did not even exist in 1929, and with a gross national product more than three times as big. Corporate profits, helped by the death of the excess-profits tax, totaled $17 billion in 1954, down 6% from 1953, but 100% above the 1929 level. On top of that, Americans in 1954 proved they knew how their giant economy...
...prime example of the new breed is Los Angeles' Howard F. Ahmanson, 48, who made his fortune in the savings-and-loan business, real estate, oil and fire insurance. Says Millionaire Ahmanson: "When I was a kid of 16, all the greybeards used to say: 'It's too bad, son. There's no opportunity any more for youngsters of your generation.' Well, they were wrong. And today, I've got fifty million bucks to prove...
...nine republics of South America put together. In area (3,287,842 sq. mi.) it is the world's biggest republic, big as the U.S. with a second Texas thrown in. In such big cities as Sao Paulo (see opposite page), the fastest-growing major metropolis, a new breed of Brazilian businessmen is changing the face of the land with a zeal unmatched in all of Latin America...