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...Sunnyvale, Calif., the mood inside the executive offices of the local Lock heed plant is one of spacious melancholy, like the first-class ballroom on the Ti tanic after most of the passengers had jumped ship. At nearby Mountain View, apartment owners are offering $50 to tenants who find friends to fill the va cancies. As jobless blue-collar workers and engineers have used up their un employment benefits, the rolls of food-stamp recipients in San Jose, Calif., have grown from 9,000 to 37,000 in the past year. Unemployment in the Se attle area...
...After the 1929 crash, Wilson tried to forget his losses with numbing doses of bathtub gin and bootleg whisky. His wife went to work to support him. and, as Wilson recalled, his mental disintegration "proceeded rapidly and implacably." Injured after an Armistice Day bender in 1934, he tried to heed the inspirational teachings of the First Century Christian Fellowship (precursor of Moral Re-Armament), but soon went on a three-day drunk that left him shattered...
Another hearing, concerning her refusal to heed the court's order, was convened, but the judge rescheduled the hearing for tomorrow, since the transcript of today's Grand Jury proceedings had not yet been prepared. She will almost certainly be convicted of contempt tomorrow and returned to the Pima County Jail...
...President to the lowliest felon, the nation wants a humane system that truly curbs crime. This is the year of the prisons, the year when Congress may double federal spending (to $300 million) to spur local reform, the year when something may finally get clone and Americans may well heed Dostoevsky's goading words...
...parsley root and multiplier onions but for meaning, personal identity and love-the sort of things the Nearings could take for granted in 1932. If they find what they are looking for, the discovery could help redeem the country. In the meantime they could do worse than heed the word from Cold Comfort Farm: Keep your compost wet. After a hard winter, even a turnip can look like a godsend...