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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the Swiss lakeside city of Geneva (pop. 150,000) the U.S. will move more than ten trunkloads of documents, including at-a-glance codifications of every treaty the U.S. has signed since the war. With the papers will go a battery of newfangled devices of diplomacy, e.g., the "electronic collating table," a twelve-foot Lazy Susan that speeds the putting-together of documents when they are needed in a hurry. Explained one Foreign Service officer: "You have to be prepared for anything...
...Walla Walla, Wash. (pop. 26,000), there is a familiar phrase that means bad news: "There's trouble on the hill." The hill is the state penitentiary, and trouble has a long history there. In 1926 some 900 convicts broke out of their cells, and threatened the main gate before they were subdued; in 1934 nine convicts and a guard died in the "Lincoln Day break"; two years ago rioters set a $500,000 fire. Last week trouble came to the hill again...
Once each year since 1950, the eastern corner of the French Pyrenees has bloomed with music. The two-week-long festival in the little (pop. 4.400) town of Prades is too rare and delicate a blossoming to be enjoyed through the sunglasses of ordinary tourists; instead of 90-piece orchestras or 100-decibel choruses to remind a man that he is getting his money's worth, the music is small and wrought with loving care for some of the most passionately musical audiences in the world. And the focus of it all is the adored and venerated master-Spanish...
Syrup & Clydesdales. Six months a year, Busch throws open his estate to touring groups of children and adults (32,000 last year), shows them his treasures, dispenses free soda pop, cookies and ice cream smothered in Anheuser-Busch corn syrup. Anheuser-Busch also spends $550,000 annually breeding Clydesdale draft horses; Gus Busch sends them around the U.S. hitched to red Budweiser wagons, promoting beer in dry farm areas where Prohibition sentiment is still strong. His latest plan: to cross tiny Sicilian donkeys with even tinier Shetland ponies, thus develop the world's smallest mules to plug...
ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE, which lopped off all passenger trains to Santa Fe, N. Mex. in the '30s, will take coaches off the run to Atchison, Kans. (pop. 12,792) if the Kansas Corporation Commission gives its O.K. Then Topeka will be the last city in the company title to be a passenger stop...