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Open to Argument. Arriving in California at age 17 with $80 in his pocket, Nebraska-born Sam Yorty went to the University of Southern California and Southwestern University Law School, worked at jobs ranging from auto salesman to haberdasher, passed the California bar in 1936, and that same year was elected to the California legislature. In his early political days, Yorty was a shocking-pink liberal, much in demand as a speaker for leftist causes. Since then-in the course of three terms in the state assembly and two in the U.S. House of Representatives-Yorty has changed. But even...
...Socony Mobil Oil Co. joined forces with the Simon & Schuster publishing company in a venture to reduce the U.S.'s highway heartburn: a seven-volume domestic imitation ($1 a volume) of the Guide Michelin. Last year, Mobil Travel Guides covering the Northeastern States and the South Central and Southwestern States were released. Last week Guidebooks Nos. 3 and 4 appeared, under the sign of the Flying Red Horse: Great Lakes Area and California and Nevada...
...Replacement of chaparral (Southwestern for brush) by grass improves water yield...
Venezuela expects that internal development will reduce sharply its economic dependence upon petroleum and stimulate a new growing point in southwestern Venezuela that will relieve the congestion in the Caracas region...
Cotton, who recently concluded trips to Rocky Mountain, Pacific coast and southwestern states, said boys in the West have not been as seriously affected by the admissions scare as their eastern counterparts. He indicated that the recession struck too late to be felt in current applications...