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...Plunger. The most conspicuous greeter, as Kennedy arrived at California's Castle Air Force Base, was Democratic Governor Pat Brown, who needs all the help he can get from all the Kennedys he can lure West in his re-election fight against Richard Nixon. Aft er an overnight stay in Yosemite National Park, the President ignited explosives to break ground for a dam and reservoir in the $500 million San Luis water project in the San Joaquin Valley - a vital link in Brown's plan to meet the multiplying water needs of Southern California...
...traveling salesman on the road these days never had it so good-and neither, for that matter, did the farmer's daughter on vacation with her husband and five children. U.S. motels, once thought of as only a place to lay down one's head overnight, are competing with one another to give Americans the most outlandishly luxurious and wildly gimmicked night's rest in the history of the middle class. Today's motels bear about as much relation to the old tourist cabin as the Baths of Caracalla do to a penny arcade...
Vital to the overnight build-up of the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II were the new aptitude tests that transformed bakers and brokers into pilots, bombardiers and navigators. The tests downplayed such culture-linked criteria as college degrees and IQs. Instead, they matched raw abilities to the skills needed...
...every day if it were cheaper. To keep his own costs down, Jahn bicycled to the Munich poultry market every morning, haggled for bargains, pedaled back to the restaurant with a load of chicken. His specialty: half a roast chicken for 85?. The first Wienerwald restaurant was an overnight hit, and Jahn began expanding...
Typically, Bennett took it with bad grace when, two years later, Stanley actually found Livingstone (who, incidentally, had not been aware that he needed finding) and became famous overnight. Bennett's cable of congratulations, which Stanley received during a leisurely and triumphal return to the U.S.. read: STOP...