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...weather was not just unseasonable-it was downright unreasonable. El Paso had its driest spring in 63 years, while Southern California never had a colder or a wetter April. Snow fell in Reno on the last day of May, and the Indianapolis auto race was delayed by rain for the first time in 52 years. Across the mainland, temperatures ran as much as 9° below normal and, on many days, Fairbanks, Alaska, boasted warmer temperatures than Manhattan. In the nation's rain-soaked capital, the Washington Post complained editorially: "We are growing a little moldy...
...Eastern Standard and thus keep the same time as the western portion, which is on Central Daylight all year long. Parts of Nebraska and Kansas in the Mountain Time zone will keep Central Daylight while their requests for revised boundaries are pending; similarly, parts of North Dakota and El Paso in the Central zone are observing Mountain Daylight. Michigan, which passed exempting legislation, has asked D.O.T. to revise its boundaries so that it falls entirely in the Eastern zone. The ultimate in confusion is Kentucky; there local option prevails, and the state must therefore cope simultaneously with four different times...
...jolly black giant of a man who brought razzle-dazzle ball handling to the sort of high art and low comedy that earned him more at his peak ($65,000 a year) than he could have made with a straight pro team; after a long illness; in El Paso...
...first round of the Sun Carnival Tournament at El Paso, they were beaten 59-54 by Southern Illinois-a school that does not even class as a major college. At Manhattan's Holiday Festival Tournament, the local favorite-No. 8-ranked St. John's-was eliminated in an opening-round upset; and New Yorkers had to satisfy their partisan appetites with the shooting of Jim Walker...
...organizations, dispersed labor forces and dropped land options, the economic ripples have spread. The price of some suburban acreage has slowed its long climb. Construction unemployment rose to 9.3% last month. So far this year, housing has slumped 30% in Omaha, 39% in Albuquerque, 40% in Philadelphia and El Paso, 51% in Los Angeles, 58% in Reno. Builder Dean Hunziker of Ames, Iowa, has cut his production from 100 to 72 homes a year, laid off half his work force. Houston Builder Conrad Harness, who planned to put up 100 apartments and 100 homes this year, now says...