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Instead of the deputy, a stranger (Burt Lancaster) comes to supper-a rip-roaring young buckaroo, part prophet and part pitchman, with the natural force of a Kansas twister and much the same blowhard approach. The stranger soon has the house in an uproar and Lizzie's head in a whirl with his promise to bring the rain their crops need, and with his threat to awaken the love her heart fears and longs for. Price: $100. "Electrify the cold front!" he cries. "Neutralize the warm front! Barometricize the tropopause!" Says Lizzie: "Bunk!" But the rainmaker has an answer...
...midst of the Middle East furore over Nasser, another veteran twister of the British lion's tail was heard from...
WHILE Schoolteacher Aileen Holtje in Udall, Kan. worried about the weather and what dress to wear to her wedding shower (see Big Twister in NATIONAL AFFAIRS), tornado-wise Murray Gart of the Wichita Eagle shared her uneasiness. Gart, 30, a displaced Bostonian who is news editor of the Eagle, and TIME'S Wichita correspondent, knew it was impossible to outguess nature when the tails of twisters flap in the sky like shreds of a tattered flag. He could only wait...
...exactly, outside phone connections with Udall were broken. It turned out that the twister had hit at that moment. Operator Mary Taylor died at her switchboard and her son Eddie died in his pool parlor. So did six other men. Of Udall's 610 people, 73 were killed. Eighty-five were missing and unaccounted for. More than 200 were injured. Of the houses, 170 were smashed to bits, 16 damaged beyond repair and only one left unscathed. Almost all property and automobiles were wrecked. The city hall, three churches, the old grade school and new $250,000 high school...
Constant Companion. One reason for the fabulous success of local stations is the post-TV development of a new average radio listener. He treats his radio like a constant companion who is pleasant to have around but can be comfortably ignored. The dial twister listens intermittently while getting up, before going to sleep, while shaving, eating, working around the house or driving (26% of the in 111 million radios in the U.S. are in automobiles). Aiming at such listeners with scattershot advertising (many spot announcements instead of big shows) and the inexpensive formula of recorded music, news and sports, local...