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High Capacity, Low Code. In three nightlong sorties through the neon-lit gathering places of the hillbillies, Norma Lee found that "the ironclad code of the hills permits no meddling from outsiders...
...Reginald Marsh's Holy Name Mission, Mark Tobey, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Lee Gatch in particular had succeeded in seizing the spirit of the New World's new worlds (opposite). In their vision of the city, they found something new to conjure with: the starry, neon-lit quality of urban America as it shows itself by night. They portrayed not actual locations so much as vast shadowlands humming with lights and movements. All three pictured truths about the American city which had never been put on canvas before...
...Madrid's Lourdes Hospital came an urgent cry: "Quick, bring candles!" The power had failed, the lights were out, and a surgeon, halfway through a cancer operation one night last week, was left in total darkness. On Madrid's Gran Via, the Spanish capital's Broadway, neon-lit theaters darkened, shop windows went black. Stumbling through the darkness, Madrileños cursed the latest and worst of a series of major cuts in the city's electricity supply. It was the same throughout most of Spain. A season of parching droughts had left the reservoirs empty...
...mayor of the city of Jerome, characterized by your [March 2] article as a "neon-lit, slot-machine satellite town . . . outside Twin Falls," I am greatly incensed over such a farfetched . . . description of our town. I would like to give you a few facts: Jerome was incorporated as a village on the 15th day of July, 1909 . . . It was made the county seat of Jerome County . . . in 1919. It serves a large agricultural area with a population of approximately 11,000 people . . . It has a modern 50-bed hospital . . . 17 churches, four public schools, two parks, a swimming pool...
...fight spread to the legislature. The house finally agreed with him, and last week the state senate did so, too. At midnight of next December 31, the clank of the bandits will be stilled, and Idaho will begin trying to get back to normal again after its noisy and neon-lit...