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Master Plan. The population is still sparse-less than 700 in some 125,000 acres. But alert Big Sureans could discern the beginnings of encroachment: Carmel Highlands, just above Big Sur. has been blotched by free-for-all development, and San Luis Obispo to the south is a well-known eyesore. Tourism began to boom; in 1952 only 2,500 tourist cars passed through Big Sur on an average summer Sunday' in 1961 it was up to 6,000. and last year 8,863 cars were turned away at Pfeiffer-Big Sur State Park for lack of camping facilities...
...both managed work up the energy to enter their events, the mile and the 1000-yd. run. Hopefully, the B.U. entrants got a good look at the Crimson stars when they lined up, because by the end of the race the Terriers were so far behind they could barely discern the backs of the Harvard tracksters in the dim light of Briggs Cage...
...light industry. Folk-song albums are all over the bestseller charts, and folk-singing groups command as much as $10,000 a night in the big niteries. As a cultural fad folk singing appeals to genuine intellectuals, fake intellectuals, sing-it-yourself types, and rootless root seekers who discern in folk songs the fine basic values of American life. As a pastime, it has staggeringly multiplied sales of banjos and guitars; more than 400,000 guitars were sold in the U.S. last year...
...naive viewpoint for so long, suddenly turns on the girl in the final sequences and destroys her by his own willful misapprehension of her world picture, should we blame Strindberg for inconsistency, or pay better attention to his frightfully economical dramaturgy? By attempting the latter, it is possible to discern the terrible logic of the play. This logic, of course, works on us as confusion if we refuse to see everything the play offers us; on the other hand, if we pay close attention to the source of our confusion, the logic works on us as a very potent lesson...
...News felt so good about everything was not easy to discern. After a show of stubbornness, it yielded to the striking New York Newspaper Guild on nearly every contested point, including dues checkoff (automatic payroll deduction of Guild dues). Even the wage settlement in the new two-year contract-ranging from $3.50 a week more for copy boys to $10.50 for reporters-was far nearer the Guild's original demand than management's first offer. The News also suffered another embarrassment. The New York Times, not directly involved in the strike, was actively involved in ending...