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...could not tell whether firing up nighttime heaters had done much to save their groves. Some 55 million boxes of oranges (out of an estimated 211-million-box crop) were lost, forecasting a likely price rise. Temperatures as low as 30° at Fort Lauderdale and 23° in Homestead killed pole beans, watermelons and tomatoes. It was the worst frost in 37 years. The weather was causing even Floridians to pack up and head south. Puerto Rico reported an influx of tourists from Miami-but high winds made even San Juan's 78° seem too cool. Wise...
...piety. It is also absolutely fascinating, especially now. Archivist of the U.S. James Rhoads has just opened an exhibit called "Milestone Documents of American History." From every corner of his 21-story attic, Rhoads has assembled and put on view priceless originals: the Louisiana Purchase Treaty of 1803; the Homestead Act of 1862, which opened the West; the Monroe Doctrine (actually two widely spaced references in President James Monroe's 1823 annual message); the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863; patents for Eli Whitney's cotton gin (1794) and Alexander Graham Bell's telephone (1876); the 1919 Treaty...
Despite these alterations of historical truth, most educators felt the course was effective. At Quincy Junior College, near the Adams family homestead, in Quincy, Mass., Instructor Robert Collins applauded WNET, New York, for its production. Says he: "What they've developed is an appreciation for the period. This cuts across age lines. TV has been an archvillain in terms of locking us into a continuous 'now.' There's a real hunger in this country for a collective past, a cherishable identity...
...This must be the meeting of the Weird Washington Photo Club," joked the President's son nervously as Andy, Bianca and White House Photographer David Kennerly clicked away with their cameras. After cocktails on the South Balcony, Nicaraguan-born Bianca then accompanied Jack on a tour of the homestead. Though she dubbed her host "a super fellow," she was obviously just as impressed by the First Family's lifestyle. Said Bianca: "I want to be President...
Exploitation of labor continued for generations. As late as the 1890s, Henry C. Frick, after breaking a strike at the Carnegie Steel Works in Homestead, Pa., reduced wages and re-established an 84-hour work week. At the other end of the scale, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and other capitalists accumulated immense fortunes, in part because they proved Adam Smith wrong in thinking that an unregulated market could not be monopolized. In 1912, Woodrow Wilson, no radical, lamented that "we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless...