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...fertile banks of the St. Lawrence all the way from Montreal to Quebec, the dollhouse shacks of tourist camps were boarded tight, and French Canadian schoolchildren walked close together against the wind. Everywhere, weeks ahead of the U.S., the birches, beeches and maples passed from red and yellow into sere brown...
...gaudy billboards; they ran past barns painted with baking powder ads and signposts cluttered with the weathered, cardboard portraits of political candidates. In the South the cotton was waisthigh. Beneath the northern border the wheatlands were bright with yellow stubble. The Western ranges with their white-faced cattle were sere again with the late summer heat. Sidetracked freight cars still bore the familiar slogans on their red sides: The Route of Phoebe Snow, The Katy, The Southern Serves the South. Leaves were turning yellow in the high valleys of the Rocky Mountains. In the Southwest, mirages still sprang up along...
Lake of Jade. Seen from the air, the crater itself seems a lake of green jade shaped like a splashy star and set in a sere disc of burnt vegetation half a mile wide. From close up the "lake" is a glistening incrustation of blue-green glass 2,400 ft. in diameter, formed when the molten soil solidified in air. The glass takes strange shapes-lopsided marbles, knobbly sheets a quarter-inch thick, broken, thin-walled bubbles, green, wormlike forms...
From London last week came news of a French attempt to solve this sere national problem. The report (which the French Ministry of Health understandably denied) : the French Government is buying ?25,000,000 worth of that restorer of physical and sexual vigor, testosterone, the male hormone (TIME, May 28). Treatment, by injection, will be voluntary, secret and free to any man under Government medical care or returning from captivity...
...week's end Hepburn held out a somewhat sere olive branch to his old enemy Prime Minister King: "My argument is not with Mr. King. . . . The time has come to oppose a new and dangerous form of Toryism in Ontario." Whether or not Mr. King accepted this peace offering, he undoubtedly would welcome any ally against enemy Drew. No one doubted that Hepburn was ready to step back as provincial Liberal leader-if he were asked. But some wondered whether he might not also be daydreaming. Mitch knows that Prime Minister King is 70 and that someone, some...