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...Goose & Carrot. Life on America's radar line-the loo-odd Aircraft Control and Warning stations-is an unsettling mixture of utter monotony and utmost intensity. Although every operator knows that the next blip on his radarscope could be the herald of death, staring steadily into the electronic eye can be endlessly boring. Radar sites are usually remote and lonely. Permanent stations, costing $5,000,000 each to build and $500,000 yearly to run, are surprisingly elaborate. Example: "Mother Goose," a warning site about 65 miles east of Albuquerque, N. Mex., is set up to protect...
...With the carrot of sex before and the lash of culture behind, the killer is soon trotting docilely down the straight and narrow. Even an unattractively moral collie, who obviously thinks he is more intelligent than anyone else in the picture (and may be, at that), condescends to lick his hand. Moreover, Sheriff McNally -a character who has to be unpleasant on principle, since the scriptwriter forgot to give him any specific motivations-mellows a little, too, and in the end they all charge off to Utah together as cheerily as vestrymen to a box supper on the church lawn...
...promises to rehabilitate the New York Central, Robert R. Young has chopped costs, closed down maintenance shops, and ruthlessly cut the payroll on his railroad. Result: a net profit of $1,100,000 for September. Last week Bob Young laid aside the stick in favor of the carrot. To the Central's $100,000-a-year President Alfred Perlman, Chairman Young offered a stock option deal. Under the ten-year deal, President Perlman will be able to buy 32,000 shares of Central stock at $19.87½ per share, 75? above the current market price...
...sprawling stockbreeding barony near Little Rock, Ark., was Jeanette Edris, 36, a tall, cool ex-debutante from Seattle, previously married to a pro football star, a lawyer and a broker. Jeanette's father is a logger's son named Bill Edris, 61, a four-times-married, hardfisted, carrot-topped entrepreneur who has amassed an estimated $10 million by putting his hand to all sorts of ventures (hotels, race tracks, theaters, etc.) in the Pacific Northwest. Like her father, Jeanette seems to have a clear knack for getting whatever she goes after. Rockefeller's friends immediately coined...
...Sacred Button. Peyote (pronounced pay-oh-tee) is a small, carrot-shaped cactus that grows wild in the valley of the Rio Grande. Cut off and dried, its top forms a bitter-tasting "button" that, eaten or brewed as tea, is capable of strong and strange effects upon the mind. Just what the effects are has not yet been scientifically determined.* The Indians have known about peyote for centuries; Cortez' men found the Aztecs using it when they invaded Mexico. It has always been associated with religious ceremony...