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"If I had not become Miss U.S.A., I would have become a counselor for the Girl Scouts this summer," said Summer Bartholomew, 23, sounding like any old girl-next-door. After collecting this year's Miss U.S.A. crown at Niagara Falls, however, the Merced, Calif., beauty has forsaken the...
Red-hot craze among the air amateurs is antique aircraft (pre-Pearl Harbor). At the Merced Municipal Airport in central California, 1,500 aircraft turned up for Merced's sixth annual Antique Fly-In. "That's the kind of plane we should get next," said a woman to...
Quite a While. For many farmers, increased costs caused losses. Merced County, Calif., growers harvested a poor barley crop because they lacked water; with the water table dropping, some farmers had to pay $15 a foot to deepen wells. Michigan Dairy Farmer Lloyd Smith reckoned the cost of a new...
To celebrate his first trip to the U.S., Huang insisted on being driven directly from Los Angeles to Yosemite National Park. Once there, he leaped from the car and began a watercolor on the spot (see cut). How does the scenery compare with his beloved Kialing River? Replies Huang: "The...
¶ Appointment of the week: J. (for John) Paul Leonard, 55, to succeed the late Stephen Penrose Jr. as president of the American University of Beirut. A Ph.D. from Columbia University and onetime professor of education at Stanford, Leonard became president of San Francisco State College in 1945. moved his...