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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conrad contemplated his growing family, concluded it would be easier to feed and educate them in Switzerland. Finding an inexpensive villa near Lausanne, he installed his family there and began making flying visits from Minnesota to Europe. In 1952 the family moved back to the U.S. and settled in San Francisco, but Conrad had learned to like the long hours of flight. He made profit out of pleasure by ferrying U.S. planes to distributors and customers in Europe. To while away the lonely hours, he composed songs in flight, chiefly to keep himself awake, became known as the "flying songwriter...
...case of 11 oz. Monkey Baker was simpler and happier. She hailed from the jungle near Iquitos, Peru. Her electrodes were successfully removed under local anesthesia by a Navy doctor. The Navy hopes to breed her in a year or so, and examine her offspring for genetic effects of space...
...biggest price-support fiascos in U.S. Agriculture Department history was the attempt to support the price of eggs. When eggs in cold storage went rotten, the department, in desperation, turned to buying dried eggs, stored tons of them in a cave near Atchison, Kans. By the time the Government decided in 1953 that supporting egg prices hurt even the farmers, by encouraging the overproduction it was intended to counteract, total taxpayer losses passed $331 million...
...dieters skipping heavy breakfasts and some fear of cholesterol in egg yolks. To bring production more in line with consumption, many a big producer thinks that the Government should stay out of the market, let competition eliminate marginal producers. Says N.A. McNally, who operates a 100,000-chicken farm near Los Angeles: "If the Government had just let things alone, some marginal producers would have been dropping out of the picture by now. I mean the 'Mom-and-Pop' operations-the ones where Pop comes home from his regular job to gather eggs every night.'' McAnally...
Perhaps because he grew up in a drab manufacturing area near Manchester and once wrote about a young man making love to a doxy in an outhouse, Novelist John Wain, 34, has been tarred by British critics with the feathers of the Angry Young Men. Novelist Wain rejects the label-and with good reason. With this novel about marital infidelity as practiced by England's rootless middle class, he identifies himself with a school that looks back not in anger but in languor...