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...Centro, Calif...
...rose suddenly and began to pace as he described his student days at the Centro Sperimentale, a government subsidized school for filmmakers. It was there that he met Fellini, Visconti, Antonioni and all the other men who now dominate the Italian film industry...
...looking down at clouds at 10,000 feet." During the daylight hours, he peered out his cabin window at the earth far below. Over California, he spotted part of the Imperial Valley to his left, and the Salton Sea; he could even pick out the irrigated acres around El Centro, where he once lived. Looking down on the Atlantic, he saw the Gulf Stream as a river of blue. Cabin temperature at one point went up to 108°, but Glenn was comfortable inside his separately cooled space suit...
...trouble began in the winter-lettuce fields near El Centro. Winter lettuce is the valley's most speculative product. The season lasts only three months, from mid-December through mid-March, when most other lettuce producers are weathered in. In that short space of 90 days, the valley's farmers supply the U.S. with 80% of its winter lettuce for an annual take of $22 million. Depending on Eastern supply and demand, prices rise and fall like a roller coaster. Says one grower: "It makes the stock market seem tame by comparison." Into this vulnerable area, where...
Heads in the Reefer. Dozens of dogs have been proved rabid, and in the county health department's refrigerator at El Centro there is a big backlog of heads from destroyed animals. Microbiologist Ella Capers Weston has not had time to check them all, has sent an overflow to state laboratories in Berkeley. At least 15 people have been bitten by dogs now known to have been rabid; scores of others have had to take the vaccine injections before the biters' rabidity could be established. Microbiologist Weston has taken them...