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Last week, it looked as if Bill Richards, now 41, had stumbled into a gold mine. On Cape Cod, where he farms 300 once-scrubby, sand-swept acres by intensive irrigation, neighbors call him "the broccoli king." This summer, barring a hurricane, he will harvest close to $200,000 worth of broccoli and lettuce from a farm which, by Texas standards, is hardly more than a pea patch. He will probably gross as much again from the sale of irrigation pipes and pumps to farmers who want to adopt his system...
...chemical engineering, he landed a research job in the Studebaker plant at South Bend, Ind., but was soon booted out because he spent all his time fooling around with racing cars. After the Indianapolis crackup, he worked as a truck farmer's assistant, spotted the scraggly Cap Cod patch at Sandwich and bought it cheap...
Tourists eat well in Newfoundland. The main fare is steak, lamb, salmon or lobster, but there are also such piquant island specialties as seal-flipper pie, smoked caplin (a smeltlike fish), fried cod tongues, and gamy saltwater bird. For dessert, there are blueberries, tart partridge berries, and amber-hued bakeapple berries, topped with thick cream. Strictly for strong stomachs is the Sunday morning breakfast of fish and brewis (boiled hardtack) with pork cracklings...
...grown up" to its responsibilities for world leadership, and needs more intellectual cod-liver oil. Publisher Ascoli is prepared to invest in The Reporter $1,500,000 of his own fortune and that of his wife, Marion, daughter of Julius Rosenwald (Sears, Roebuck...
Comey hopes to find 20 students here interested enough in gliding to form the nucleus of a new club. MIT now has an active glider club of 25 members, and owns a two-place utility glider which it uses in flights from Coonamessett Airfield at Falmouth, on Cape Cod...