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...arsenal. Last week airmen and officers at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base were being trained to fire Minutemen. Slogging through knee-deep snow, workmen in Montana were well along on the project of digging 150 silo missile sites that will be scattered like giant gopher holes across 20,000 sq. mi. By late next fall, a full year ahead of the original schedule, the first 50 Minutemen will go operational in Montana. And by 1965, the Air Force will have between 750 and 900 Minutemen on the picket line in Montana, Missouri, North and South Dakota, and other...
...World Champion New York Yankees, who hit 193 home runs last season, seemed intent on giving the rest of the American League a chance. From the cellar-dwelling Philadelphia Phillies, they picked up Righthander Robin Roberts, 35, top "gopher ball" pitcher (46 homers in a single season) of all time...
Sinclair Lewis, by Mark Schorer. The author piles up details with the enthusiasm of a squirrel in autumn and almost succeeds in burying a fascinating biography of the scourge of Babbittry, who, throughout his years of self-exile, never really left Gopher Prairie...
Sinclair Lewis, by Mark Schorer. The author piles up details with the enthusiasm of a squirrel in autumn, and almost succeeds in burying a fascinating biography of the scourge of Babbittry, who, throughout his years of self-exile, never really left Gopher Prairie...
...lingering cultural provincialism, as World War II destroyed its political isolationism. Yet the satirist's lashing must always be to some extent a self-flagellation. No thoughtful reader of his books can fail to see that Lewis, rebellious, drunken and selfexiled, loved Gopher Prairie, and the U.S., and that he never really left it. His definitive biography is still to be written...