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Against the Middle. In Santa Fe, N. Mex., Arthur Stein, head of the local chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous and executive director of the State Commission on Alcoholism, applied for a license to operate a liquor store...
...Second Coffee. In the restaurants, there was mounting bad news on the menu. Robinson's in Kansas City abandoned its historical attachment to the 49? " '49er lunch" and renamed it the " '59-er," with price to match. In Santa Fe, N. Mex., the "Special Mexican Plate" jumped from 75? to a dollar. In Manhattan's Hotel Statler, the breakfast that cost 80? one morning was up to 95? the next...
Prospectors who came pouring into town discovered that the grey limestone rock in which Paddy had found the yellow streaks runs for 50 miles in a ten-mile swatch. Most of it is on land owned by the Santa Fe Railroad. Enthusiasts guessed that there might be as much as ten million tons of ore, worth from $5 to $15 a ton. Last week Grants's two long-distance lines buzzed with calls from all over the U.S. Most of its 17 bars all proudly displayed ore samples. Advertisements for mining machinery and Geiger counters poured in on Clyne...
...Santa Fe's President Fred Gurley popped into town to see for himself, decided to spend $50,000 for exploration work. He soon had crews of geologists and laborers working in the mountains, carpenters building a headquarters and assay office 20 miles from town. It would be months before the real worth of the strike could be determined, but Grants and the Santa Fe were optimistic...
...believe in democracy or you don't ... I wouldn't consider myself capable of handling my job as a security inspector if, because of my color, I had to be treated differently." Result: everyone else in town either went shaggy or drove 34 miles to Santa Fe and the nearest pair of clippers...