Word: findings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Calling for Fix. In Calgary, Alta., the Herald ran a personal ad: "Rented room on Aug. 18 in East Calgary. Couldn't find way back. Could landlord please phone me at AV 9-9586 and ask for Jake Funk...
...style New Dealer, loosed a blizzard of proposals for new alphabet agencies into the Senate hopper. Sample: a CCC-style Youth Conservation Corps. But in an era of budget-balancing conservatism, he looked like a Democratic dinosaur. Busy touring the country on his half-announced candidacy, Humphrey did not find time to carry out the one important legislative assignment that he got from Johnson: writing a completely new Democratic farm program and fighting it through Congress. Half-time prospects: dim and fading...
Crab Grass & Taxes. While far too many of the 16 million U.S. Negroes do live in slums-and cannot find the housing they can afford and need-other thousands are blazing a trail in fast-growing Negro suburbia. Blooming on the outskirts of dozens of cities are hundreds of new communities such as Park Terrace: Crestwood Forest (150 homes, $12,000-$60,000) near Atlanta; Lakeview Gardens (614 homes, $9,000-$19,000) near Memphis; Pontchartrain Park (725 homes, $14,30O-$25,-ooo) near New Orleans; Dunbar Estates' Westbury Houses (200 homes, $14,000-$20,000) in Long Island...
Jaundiced Eye. It took Detroit and the U.S. a long time to recognize Yamasaki, as it took Yamasaki a long time to find himself. Born in Seattle, he shared the indignities common to Japanese Americans. But he had a burning desire, inspired by an architect uncle, to become an architect. After getting his degree in architecture from the University of Washington, he went East to New York, struggled through a long apprenticeship working as a draftsman, waited out the animosity of the war years, in 1945 landed a job with a firm in Detroit, where he stayed. Steady progress...
What is there to say about Smaragthi? Beautiful, of course, and so rounded in the right places that even her foster father tries to violate her when, drunk again, he comes home to find her naked and asleep. But even though Smaragthi's face and figure dominate the small fishing village of Skala, she has to share a sensuousness that in the end is bigger and sweeter than she. For Novelist Myrivilis is not just in love with his heroine-he is in love with Greece...