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...undoubtedly that of Novelist John Masters (TIME, March 28). His goal is as massive as it is simple: to tell the whole story of the English in India in 35 historical novels covering 300 years. At 41, with five of the books behind him (including Bhowani Junction, Night Runners of Bengal and CoromandeU), he has a fair chance of carrying out his plan -particularly since he works on an electric typewriter, turning out first drafts at a clip of 11,000 words a day. But U.S.-naturalized Novelist Masters has paused in his fiction labors to write a memoir...
PITTSBURGH: Rebuilt Golden Triangle, at junction of Allegheny (below) and Monongahela Rivers, replaced slum site of old shacks and railroad yards with park and airy buildings. part of an answer to a problem that has plagued most American cities with increasing insistency since the end of World War II. While suburbs have boomed, the business and residential hearts of cities have choked and decayed. Downtown areas, crowded with traffic, have withered and become blighted, cost more in municipal services (while returning less in taxes) and threatened cities with economic strangulation...
...rally is scheduled to get under way at 12:30 p.m. from the Wilder Dam parking lot, between Hanover and White River Junction, and will be raced through backroads of central New Hampshire...
Three years after their first talk, Electrician Pick went out looking for uranium. After months of hardship, he struck it rich near Grand Junction, Colo., became one of the U.S.'s first uranium millionaires (so far, Pick's Delta Mine has made him about $10 million-TIME, Sept. 6). Before long, like many another really rich man, Pick found that the world's less fortunate swarmed toward him at the news of his success; his mail was stacked high with requests for everything from medical aid to a sports car for use in uranium prospecting...
...uranium-rich West another major strike was confirmed last week. Its name: Blue Rock Mine, in Arizona's Rincon Mountains, some 40 miles east of Tucson. The finders: Dentist Garth Thornburg, 35, and his brother Vance, 33, onetime farmer. Pioneers of the Grand Junction uranium rush, the Thornburg brothers collected promising claims on the Colorado plateau in 1950, built them into their Uranium Enterprises. Inc. On their 116 claims in the Blue Rock area, they believe they have at least 25,000 tons of commercial ore, hope to prove out 150,000 tons...