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ROMAN MAKAREWICZ Los Angeles...
...such diverse Democrats as Pennsylvania's Governor David Leo Lawrence, Illinois' Jake Arvey, New York's Carmine De Sapio and Georgia's Committeewoman Mrs. T. K. Kendrick. In trying to persuade the Democratic National Committee to veto the site-selection committee's choice of Los Angeles for the 1960 Democratic convention, they argued that 1) Los Angeles is expensively far away for most delegates, 2) the Pacific time zone would mean poorly programed telecasting to eastern audiences, 3) Los Angeles smog is too thick...
...National Chairman Paul Butler of Indiana and his California sidekick Paul Ziffren (TIME, Feb. 16) held votes enough to force ratification of Los Angeles by a top-heavy 71-35, after a three-hour debate at the National Committee's session in Washington. The victory was a handsome push for Adlai Stevenson, longtime ally and presidential choice of the liberal Ziffren-Butler team. And this, even more than space, time and smog, was what worried moderate Easterners and conservative Southerners most...
Kenneth Auchincloss '59, of Lowell House and New York City, and Stephen A. Marglin '59, of Dunster House and Los Angeles, Calif., will use the fellowships for one year of study in England...
Last week he was once again proving this in his most ambitious project: Salton City, 150 miles southeast of Los Angeles. By the desert's curious standards, Salton City is something of a bargain. Though the summer heat is high (up to 125° F.) and the land is low (234 ft. below sea level), there is water and there is a major highway (U.S. 99). By car and plane, buyers hustled to the sun-struck sands and low-lying, spiny, green clumps of greasewood along the shores of 30-mile-long Salton Sea. There they plunked down...