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...Warren administration put through the "taste test" citrus program which insured the vitamin-hungry citizens of America oranges and grapefruit ripe and redolent with succulent, salubrious, satisfying juice. Governor McCarty continued this program. The Warren administration sponsored legislation outlawing highway cows and hogs [and] slightly reduced the cruel carnage of colliding cars . . . Illegal gambling had been openly operated in Florida for more than 50 years before 1949. The Warren administration suppressed all open, illegal gambling . . . and markedly reduced sneak gambling . . . TIME turned back to the Ananias tradition by alleging that Florida had a "Fuller Warren type of government-by-lobby...
...first time in his life, though all Israel called, Ben-Gurion would not heed. He had never failed it before: he went to Palestine in 1906, a boy of 20 from a little Polish village, to help drain the marshes and plant the citrus trees of the promised homeland. To further the Zionist cause, he became an editor and pamphleteer, then a corporal in General Allenby's army, which liberated Palestine from the Turks in World War I. He helped found Histadrut, Israel's largest labor federation, and became Zionism's John L. Lewis; he headed...
...crop, the co-op has blossomed into a huge pyramid with a base of 14,000 growers and an apex of hired managers who run the business. Not many of Sunkist's growers own more than 15 acres apiece. But together they market about 75% of all the citrus fruit in California and Arizona-28,600,000 boxes of lemons, oranges and grapefruit each year-and run a $500 million business. After all expenses in its '51-52 season, Sunkist returned to growers a total of $167 million, and the co-op expects an increase...
...heavy-set grower named Paul S. Armstrong. 61, who looks like a benevolent Buddha. As general manager of Sunkist Growers, Inc. since 1931, Armstrong has the job of coordinating 175 little packing associations, each with its own packing plant, setting advertising and research policies, and devising new citrus products...
...prayer. The triangle, Wright believes, is "the symbol of aspiration." ¶Pictures of a house Wright built in Phoenix last year for one of his sons. Made of concrete blocks, it looks like a snail shell somewhat flattened and supported on stilts. Says Wright: "It is in a citrus-orchard district and the orange trees make the lawn for the house. The slowly rising ramp reveals the surrounding mountains and gives security to the occupants...