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...Indian masses. Admirers who bend to touch his sandaled feet are often rewarded with a gentle kick; officials who prepare fancy receptions may find themselves denounced as "wasters of the people's time and money." Last week in the modest farming town of Hubli, in southwestern India, Nehru sat contentedly on a bamboo-railed platform, swatting flies while the chairman introduced him to the crowd of 2,000. Glowingly, the speaker described the guest of honor as "a man of great heart and unsurpassed wisdom...
Hired by a Los Angeles engineering firm to hunt out new deposits in the southwestern U.S. and the Mexican desert, discouraged by his failure and waiting impatiently for a primping girl friend to meet him at the library, Geologist Charles Godfrey Gunther idly thumbed his way through an old volume of ancient history. His eye fell on a chapter concerning ancient Cyprus and copper. Months later, with the backing of Colonel Seeley Mudd and Philip Wiseman, Gunther began the long and finally successful search for new copper on Cyprus. Twenty years of U.S. perseverance, frugality and hardship passed before...
What O'Keeffe wanted to do included huge bee's-eye views of blossoms, asphalt cityscapes, white skulls and pelves set against hard blue Southwestern skies, and -lately-such stark, sun-filled abstractions as From the Plains. Under the sheltering cape of Alfred Stieglitz, whom she married, O'Keeffe developed a diamond-hard pride and a head-on style. Both helped her become one of the strongest, though not deepest, individualists in American painting...
...Houston Oil's stock and is joint owner with Houston of the East Texas Pulp and Paper Co. TIME is negotiating to buy 100% of the East Texas Co., which operates a $33 million pulp-and-paper mill (sulphate pulp and paperboard), and Houston's Southwestern Settlement and Development Corp., which owns 585,000 acres of timberland to supply the mill...
...Virginia's western, southwestern and northern counties, where Negro population runs less than 10% and integration can be carried out without much trouble, many citizens had doubts. The strongest opposition came from Arlington and Fairfax, both thickly populated bedroom communities for Washington...