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...trustees of the Chicago Historical Society turned down Fan Dancer Sally Rand 23 years ago when she offered the famous ostrich plumes she had used at the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair. Now, at 62, Sally is still fanning through the nightclub act that nearly turned the fair into a second Chicago fire, and evidently the trustees have grown nostalgic. They invited "Her Sexellency," as she is sometimes billed in the clubs, to donate the big 7-lb. fans to the society museum as "symbols of an era," and Sally saucily agreed. "Helps them keep abreast...
...gaudy entertainments. The city's job-sprouting economy (average family income: $9,000) also ripples with new muscle-and diversity. The sociology and economy of the whole area have been molded by the aerospace industry, by research into pure science, and by such think factories as RAND Corp. California Institute of Technology's satellite-tracking Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena has become all but synonymous with the race to the moon and deep space probes. Along "science strip," a 130-mile coastal stretch encompassing dozens of laboratories, test ranges and research companies, scientists have become leaders of such...
...They may spend their money in white stores and invest in the stock market, but to mail a letter they must enter the post office through a separate door and buy their stamps at a separate window. "South Africa," says Laurence Gandar, editor in chief of Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail, "is a nation that has lost...
...government advertises for white immigrants in newspapers throughout Europe, attracts more than 3,000 a month. Its propaganda organs beat the drums for "more white babies." Last month a Cape Town scientist declared that, with proper training, baboons could replace Africans in menial tasks-a suggestion that led the Rand Daily Mail to quip that Verwoerd would soon offer them their own Baboonstan. But so hungry is the nation for manpower that employers everywhere are forced to give non-whites ever more and ever better jobs...
...year future, scientists are already busy with new ways to feed the hungry planet. Los Angeles' Rand Corp. feels confident that fish will be herded like cattle and raised in offshore pens, that kelp, seaweed, plankton and microscopic sea plants will be grown by divers living for months at a time in undersea bunkhouses. Oilmen have lately discovered how to derive a high-grade, edible protein from petroleum. The U.S. Army has figured out how to irradiate meats to preserve them for three years-a development of vast potential for refrigeration-shy countries. Would people eat such stuff? Happily...