Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your article on Fertile Valley and the ''Spartan Wives" [TIME, April 14] really made me shudder at the intellectual laziness of American women. Is it possible they really find mental stimulation in the type of adult education outlined in your article, or are they seeking merely mental soporifics and time-killers? Might I suggest they add "Flower Arrangements" and "How to Collect Antiques" to their program...
...head of a family receives the right to till some 40 acres owned not by himself, but by the community. Seven years after Cardenas, this socialistic system seems to work reasonably well, at least in the great collective farms of the Laguna and the rich plots of the Yaqui valley. But there is not enough land. Half a million people are still after ejido grants; half a million more are eligible to apply for them...
Physicist Oppenheimer, who reads eight languages including Sanskrit, will be the Institute for Advanced Study's third director (his predecessors: Abraham Flexner and Frank Aydelotte). Oppy favors porkpie hats and good horses. During the war he and his wife traveled by horseback from their Pecos Valley ranch to Los Alamos, to the considerable mortification of a tenderfoot FBI agent who had to ride along. Oppy's pet peeve: anybody who underestimates the Bomb ("Its limitations? The limitations lie in the fact that you don't want to be on the receiving...
Thine the breath over hill and valley...
There are Spartan classes in bridge, knitting, sewing (with the accent on how to make children's clothes from G.I. cast-offs), furniture repair, interior decorating and house-planning (against the happy day when the wives will leave the Valley). Also on the schedule: dramatics, a chorus, an orchestra, arts & crafts. This month the Spartan Wives, with the help of the League of Women Voters, will add a political study group to the list...