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...Half of Arizona's cantaloupes have spoiled in the fields. Ten thousand acres of costly alfalfa went to seed uncut. The State's output of long staple cotton, threefourths of the U.S. supply and used for parachute web and machine-gun belts, is threatened. Casa Grande valley farmers paid $4 a day for workers they used to get for $40 a month-and saw those farm hands go off to $1.12-an-hour jobs building camps for 10,000 relocated Japanese. Most of the Japanese are farmers from California; now they sit idly in the shade, watching...
With a few men strung along the thread, Mills's coeducational summer session had 350 students for the summer. One group lived in Orchard-Meadow Hall with A. Maurois, speaking passable French and concentrating on durable French culture. Another, forming a Casa Pan-Americana, bandied Spanish and Portuguese with famed Latin-American Scholar Samuef Guy Inman, even staged fiestas for visiting Latin-American sailors. For music, there was French Composer Darius Milhaud and the Budapest String Quartet, with whom some quartet-struck students carried on a mild flirtation. There were also Architect Richard Neutra, ex-German Political Scientist Hans...
Next day Don Júpiter, who as "director-manager" fronts a mysterious film company called Argentina Images, presented himself at the Casa Rosada to film a luncheon for his friend Governor Moreno. Without protocol, exit Júpiter...
Before he was fairly settled in Santiago's grey Casa Moneda, Chile's new Acting President Geronimo Mendez had ?n important visitor. Out of a borrowed Lufthansa plane at Santiago airport one day last week stepped Brazil's smart, dapper Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, all primed to talk commercial treaties. He had left Rio expecting to confer with President Pedro Aguirre Cerda, had learned of Don Tinto's temporary retirement (TIME, Nov. 17) while en route...
...Acting President Ramón S. Castillo announced that he had summarily fired the entire Municipal Council of Buenos Aires and would replace it with a hand-picked set of appointees. Loud though the explosion was, it was not loud enough to blow the Acting President out of the Casa Rosada...