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...Texas' drought-parched cattle and wheat country, the rainfall averaged more than two inches. In southwestern Missouri's burned-out dairy land, weather stations reported up to an inch. From .5 to 1.5 inches fell across the Great Plains. In New England and down the eastern seaboard to Virginia, the fall averaged two inches...
Still energetically sightseeing in the sixth month of his world tour, Japan's 19-year-old Crown Prince Akihito moved up the Atlantic seaboard after his week in Washington and Williamsburg, Va. He toured Philadelphia (his hostess-guide: Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, once his tutor in Tokyo), took the Pennsylvania Turnpike at 75 m.p.h.. and, at the R.C.A. laboratory in Princeton, N.J., watched color television and inspected the egg of a sea urchin (magnified 10,000 times by an electron microscope). In New York the Prince turned up at a Yankees-Browns night game, was a red-carpet...
...veteran leader in the liberal Republican movement. Here & there around the country were others, not so well known beyond their state lines, who were heroes to the home folks, and adept at political infighting. Maryland's Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, the man who nominated Eisenhower at Chicago, was a seaboard internationalist; Colorado's popular Dan Thornton was a western conservative. Together they reppresented the limits of the Eisenhower faith, but both were enthusiastic Ikemen and both could be counted on to spread the word...
What a Sailor Must Learn. Cornelius Shields was born far from the sea, in St. Paul, Minn., in 1895. Fitly enough, it was a notable year in U.S. sailing history, though the year's tidings made little ripple beyond the Eastern Seaboard. It was the year in which American yachtsmen, sailing Defender, a lineal descendant of the great ocean racer America,* defeated the British challenger for the tenth straight time in the America's Cup series. It was also the year in which the premier international championship for smaller boats, the Seawanhaka Cup series, was launched. Though...
...Boomtowns on the Byways On 70 acres in Yonkers, N.Y. last week, builders were working on a $30 million shopping Center, the biggest in the East. The Cross County Center, seven miles from Manhattan, will contain one of the biggest supermarkets (First National Stores) ever built on the Eastern Seaboard and a $5,500,000 Gimbels' branch, its first in the New York area. The 5,40O-car parking lot will be big enough to handle 25,000 cars...