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...structures of most of the other key industrial states where the 1960 election will be won or lost. Mostly Democratic New York City has 40% of the voters, its mostly-Republican suburbs have 20%, and the remaining 40% are "upstate"-in a green and generally Republican fruit-and-dairy farmland dotted by a few grey and generally Democratic cities. Last week TIME Correspondent John L. Steele made soundings in all three areas, reported that Jack Kennedy stands to carry New York by a margin ranging from 250,000 to 500,000 votes...
...Webbs bought eight acres of rolling farmland seven miles south of Burlington and opened their museum the following year. Now a complex of more than 40 acres and 33 buildings, Shelburne contains, among other things, the 220-ft. side-wheeler Ticonderoga, which was shipped overland from nearby Lake Champlain, the jail from Castleton, Vt., the Colchester Reef lighthouse, a fully equipped 19th century pharmacy, and a Victorian railroad depot. Some of the buildings had to be dismantled to be moved and painstakingly reassembled at Shelburne. Such difficulties do not deter Mrs. Webb. "Please, Mother,'' one of her five...
...TORNADO RIDE. A peaceful drive through farmland suddenly turns into a daymare as the customer gets what he's paid for. Caught in the core of a twister, he looks up to see barn doors, bodies, toilet seats, privy doors, cows, etc., whirling about his head in the howl and whoosh of a wind machine. The illusion is complete, as the tourist car actually moves slowly across the interior of a huge drum that spins at 75 revolutions per minute...
...time of withering despair in South Dakota, and there was worse to come. Father Humphrey moved the drugstore to Huron, a larger town (pop. 11,000) in the midst of once-prosperous farmland, in the hope of finding a larger clientele. Hubert gave up his dreams of a college education, traveled over the countryside helping his father vaccinate hogs, crammed through a six-month pharmacy course in Denver (his pharmacist's license still hangs over the counter in the Humphrey drugstore). Somehow the Humphreys and their drugstore survived. Then on Armistice Day. 1932, the first dust storm hit Huron...
...nations finally got together over the division of the waters of the Nile. Nasser had urgent reasons for settling the long dispute: this month Soviet engineers arrive to start work on the first stage of the huge Aswan High Dam project-a scheme designed to expand Egypt's farmland by 30% and multiply its electric power eightfold. Since the Nile travels 1,900 miles through the Sudan before reaching Egypt, the Sudanese were strategically placed to cut off Nasser's water if they chose...