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...Southwestern Europe, it was Pelota Week. From Biarritz on the Atlantic coast to Orthez and Oloron-Sainta-Marie in the heart of the Pyrenees, Basques were playing their national game. Shepherds and schoolboys, fishermen and priests, customs inspectors and smugglers ran each other ragged as they whipped a goatskin-covered ball against any convenient wall and went through the swift gyrations of pelota, that rugged ancestor of jai alai, handball and most other court games...
Champagne Glass Trail. Archaeologist Seton Lloyd, director of the British Institute of Archaeology in Ankara, tells in the Scientific American how British diggers uncovered Arzawa. First, Student James Mellaart reconnoitered southwestern Anatolia, looking for mounds, stones and bits of pottery. Some of the potsherds could be fitted together into graceful drinking vessels like champagne glasses. They led Mellaart, like bits of paper in a paper chase, to the centers of the long-forgotten culture, southeast of Istanbul...
...billion tied up in its wheat-support program, and the storage costs amount to $150,000,000 a year. But last week, as the harvesting of the new winter wheat crop got under way in the Southwestern states, it looked as if the U.S. would face a wheat shortage of a kind; it might not have all the high-quality wheat that U.S. bakers need. Of the U.S.'s billion-bushel stockpile of wheat, farmers and bakers estimate that only 10% to 25% is usable in its present form by the breadmaking industry-the single biggest wheat user...
...Shamrock Hotel. For $625,000 he sold Hilton Hotels his redemptive right to the Shamrock, thus gave up the privilege of buying back the property that cost him $21 million. With that went the last significant chunk of the far-flung McCarthy empire, which in its heyday encompassed big Southwestern oil and gas fields, export-import companies, a Detroit steel plant, weekly newspapers, a Houston bank...
...BOOM will push the industry's expenditure for new plants and pipe lines to a record $1.4 billion in 1955, the fifth straight year that expansion has topped the $1 billion mark. Nearly a quarter will go for two new pipelines linking Southern and Southwestern gas fields with Midwest and Northwest consumers...