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Milk Money. The report said that the same dairy organization gave $75,000 in apparently illegal contributions and $55,600 in legal gifts to the Mills campaign, while its employees kicked in a legal $40,000. Another cooperative, Mid-American Dairymen, Inc., illegally donated $15,000 to the Mills campaign...
...weekly battle journalists became something else-students of a new medium. Each week, as they came from their mailboxes or newsstands, Americans experienced the powerful after-effects of a new art called "photojournalism." After LIFE, the Sinclair Lewis mid-American territory of Main Street, insulated and uninformed, passed into fiction forever. Said a first-grade teacher in Cleveland last week: "I remember cutting out the photographs when I was a child and bringing them into school to my teachers. And as a teacher I brought LIFE into the classroom and had the children cut out photographs. It was a teaching...
...much of its Middle East oil, other sources had to be located rapidly. Campbell diverted Jersey tankers at sea and chartered others, kept the region fueled with a pipeline of ships bringing oil from the Western Hemisphere. At one point Esso's Fawley, England, refinery was handling a mid-American grade of oil called Rocky Mountain Sour that had never before been seen in Europe...
Lauded for his "intelligent recklessness on the football field," Pont has coached Miami (Ohio) University for the past seven years. The Yalies' new football coach collected three Mid-American Conference titles and compiled a 43-21.2 record while at Miami. Last season his conference-champion eleven registered eight victories including a 10-7 win over Big Ten opponent Purdue...
...Fair Lady, with Edwardian charm, The Music Man, with mid-American corn. and Flower Drum Song, with Oriental flair, make a trio of memorable musicals. Redhead cuts a nifty caper-and the fanciest footwork is Gwen Verdon...