Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season when economic and political pundits are working over the faults and weaknesses of the U.S., a TIME correspondent drove into California's San Joaquin Valley to bring up to date a story of fault and weakness that fascinated the pundits 25 years ago. His question: Whatever happened to the Okies-the thousands of desperate farm families that fled drought and Depression and swarmed into California in the 1930s? The answer turned out to be a story of adversity that turned to strength for both a migrant people and a region of fabulous fertility. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Harvesters...
...nation's population has swelled to 6,133,900. Farm hands are flocking to the cities; immigrants from Spain and Italy are pouring in. A primitive land ten years ago, Venezuela today shops for the delicacies of the world. Through the broad, temperate mountain valley that houses Caracas, Jaguars, Ferraris, Thunderbirds, Cadillacs crowd the six-lane autopistas...
Kicked-Up Rating. Garner has happily forsaken his nomadic life for San Fernando Valley, where he lives with his wife Lois and her nine-year-old daughter by a previous marriage, Kimberly. In his three months on Maverick, to which ABC, Warner Bros, and the sponsor, Kaiser Industries, have committed $6,000,000 for 52 shows (13 of them repeats), he has earned a trifling $500 a week; but he insists that "salary doesn't mean a cotton-picking thing to me." Cowpoke Garner and his colleagues get the pleasure of playing from scripts in which a stage direction...
When Roy G. Jacobsen, 26, of Long Valley, N.J., switched from Dartmouth to Columbia University in 1951, he had some pretty exalted notions about what he was after. He wanted nothing less than to arn all about truth, understanding, integrity, enlightenment, justice, liberty, courage, honesty and critical judgment-the very virtues he saw extolled on countless plaques and friezes about Columbia's campus. But after searching for the light, first a physics and then as an English major, Jacobsen gave up. In his senior year, he flunked four courses, and the college refused to give him his degree. Last...
...underwater loudspeakers), to women in slenderizing salons, to celebrators in non-slenderizing saloons. In Philadelphia, worshipers can drop by the Arch Street Methodist Church and adjust a selector to the hymn of their choice. From the highest building in Salt Lake City, Christmas carols boom across the Salt Lake Valley. "I don't want to sound like Scrooge," complained an irate woman, "but damn it, I don't want to go without sleep until December 26th, either...