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...wave was over the U.S. Cold air from Alaska swept to the Gulf of Mexico and mixed with warm, moist air there. Such mixing always causes meteorological fireworks. During Jan. 2-3, Florida and Cuba had one of the worst winter storms on record, with 70-mile gusts uprooting palm trees and drenching Havana hotels with salt spray. No sooner had the storm got out of the way than another formed over Texas and moved east. Snow fell in Fort Myers, southern Florida for the first time on record. Florida children were released from school to enjoy the unusual sight...
...legislative hearing on the Charles River Basin last Monday gave evidence that some Cambridge politicians have not yet exhausted their wit in discovering new ways of profiting from the city's drive for improvement. In the cause of "progressive industrialization," certain well-situated individuals appear to be seeking to palm off worthless land as valuable, realizing a handsome bit of cash in the process...
...Harpo ogled the camera with idiot grins and adroit grimaces, whistled replies between his fingers, blew smoke bubbles at Murrow and sadly plucked at his harp. But, in the lifelong tradition of "inviolable mutism." he was noisily silent. Tumbling over the furniture in his Palm Springs home, fright-wigged Harpo was as much a problem to chatty Mrs. Marx (exActress Susan Fleming...
...concrete, bright colors, polygonal swimming pool, straw-and-mahogany decor. Its planner was Morris Lapidus, architect of Florida's Fontainebleau, Eden Roc and Americana, who likes his hotels to "tickle and amuse." The $4,000,000 Arawak is set on Jamaica's smart north shore in sunny palm groves between a high, green range of mountains and the azure Caribbean, has a white sand beach. Owners: an international group headed by Toronto Mining Broker Albert N. Richmond...
...schools. Bishop Amissah's thesis at St. Peter's College in Rome was on a comparison between Catholic canon law and native customs on marriage; he is currently investigating the native custom of pouring libations on important occasions (English gin, schnapps or potent akpeteshie, illicitly distilled from palm juice). There has been considerable church controversy over this practice; church leaders boycotted a welcome ceremony to the Duchess of Kent during Ghana's recent Independence Day celebration because a libation was poured. "We educated people do not yet know what a villager understands when he pours a libation...