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...that has been used by California Governors over the past 60 years looks something like a three-tiered wedding cake. But most of its tenants have had complaints. One of them. Governor Culbert Olson (1939-1943), fell through the crumbling front steps. The latest, Pat Brown, is awakened at dawn each day by trucks that rumble past the house and shake it to its ancient foundations. Brown is also slightly apprehensive about the coil of rope he must keep near his bed by order of state fire officials who say the mansion is a charming firetrap...
Readymade Group. Perhaps because Americans are notorious joiners, group psychotherapy is the most distinctively American contribution to treatment of the mentally ill. The system had a false dawn as far back as 1905, when a tuberculosis specialist found that his patients benefited from regular meetings. But the emotional aspects of TB were not then understood, and a quarter-century passed before a few pioneers began to reason that some people get sick from their reactions to other people, and that when they get better they still have to live with other people. In the meantime, said the theorists...
...wharves and beaches of Cape Cod were all there, transformed into a subtle geometry that partially conceals their identity but thereby achieves what Knaths is after-"mood and wonder." Knaths never goes in for dramatics. His colors are muted, do not dazzle. He can catch the orange glory of dawn, but he is not interested in the glare of high noon. He suggests the movement inherent in even the still life, but shuns swift outward action. Rather than a storm at sea, he prefers to paint the glistening emptiness of the time when the tide has run out. There...
...days a year, Pasadena. Calif., is a gentle, cultivated city populated by little old ladies who sit behind lace curtains and, according to legend, knit Volkswagens. But on New Year's Day. Pasadena is no place for the timid. Bass drums defile the dawn, and the aroma of American Beauty mingles with the perfume of nervous palomino. The Tournament of Roses parade is all about girls and beauty; the afternoon's football game is supposed to separate the men from the boys...
...richest farmer around New Egypt, N.J., has not tilled a field since he was in his teens, and the only crops that grow on his 106 acres are grass, alfalfa and hay. But Stanley Dancer is no gentleman farmer. He is up at dawn, rain or shine, employs a staff of 27, meets a weekly payroll of $2,200 and personally markets his product all the way from New York to Florida and California. At 35, Trainer-Driver Dancer is the top man in U.S. harness racing...