Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moved his growing family of three boys and two girls to California, where he caught on as a section hand for the Southern Pacific. The family ended up in the quiet town of Kingsburg (pop. 1,500), 20 miles south of Fresno in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley. For a year, with nothing but a ragged curtain as a dividing "wall," the seven Johnsons made their home in a boxcar on a siding near a cannery...
...foremost novelist of Communist China is a Yangtze Valley scholar's son who calls himself Mao Tun. The name sounds exactly like the Chinese words for spear and shield-a combination which, according to a literary tradition 2,500 years old, signifies contradiction. Last week, as Red China's "creative workers" met in the shining new Great Hall of the People for Peking's Third National Congress of Writers and Artists, Mao Tun, 64, capped a long career as a man of contradiction...
...Lower Depths. While all this seemed to be leading to the Steinbeck orchards in the Salinas valley, it was actually leading to $300,000 a year. From the wooden microphone of his childhood to the hamburgers with Nietzsche relish, Mort Sahl had accumulated experience, intelligence and enmity until just one more shattering blow was needed to complete his training. He got it when he disgustedly walked out of a beat-liberal campus party, picked up a tangerine on the way, and swallowed a seed that-according to Sahl-lodged in his appendix. A doctor at a Berkeley hospital referred...
...accused Tip of being against the sacred Tennessee Valley Authority (though Tip denies it) because of his connections with big business. He criticized Tip's attacks on federal aid and charged him with having the support of the "drug interests" who, Estes implies, are out to even the score for the Kefauver Senate investigation of drug prices. Knowing his vulnerability on civil rights, the Keef prudently stayed away from the Los Angeles Democratic Convention, surmising that he might be tagged with partial responsibility for the all-out civil rights plank. Yet, though he was fighting for his political life...
...fraud-just tender-footedness. After watching his wife and daughters weaken from malnutrition and dysentery, Bud Boyd had marched out, returned with mounts, Rancher Proctor, the spaghetti, and other restoratives. Then the tenderfeet, after twelve days of roughing it, beelined for the sybaritic comforts of their Mill Valley, Calif, home...