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...Missoula because there is no way of deporting them. The detainees (never referred to as prisoners) govern themselves, spend their time reading, listening to the radio, playing games, doing chores for pin money. They are not forced to work. Name of the camp, chosen by the inmates, is "Bella Vista" (see cuts...
Last week, as Benito Mussolini addressed his obediently enthusiastic Chamber of Fasces and Corporations in Rome, the people of Italy herded around their radios had every reason to be slightly giddy. For Italy's most ruinous year had become, in dizzy oratorical retrospect, a vista of conquest...
...west vista, overlooking the giant dam, a little clump of 10,000 people stood to hear Washington's balding young Governor Arthur Langlie declare that the Grand Coulee was now in service. Down in the concrete labyrinths of the powerhouse, below the main generator pits, bigwigs gathered on Level 991† around microphones; there stolid Indian bucks and squaws from Colville Reservation watched Chief Jim James pay tribute to the men who had drowned the hunting ground of his ancestors in a new American dream...
...Vista, Calif...
...seasons. Their California home is a modest, eight-room Ensenada bungalow with green shutters, and rooms for the two young Jordans, Jim Jr. and Katherine. Out back, Jim Sr., now about 45. has a workshop and a vegetable patch, just as Fibber has at radio's 79 Wistful Vista. But off the air Jim Jordan is everything Fibber is not. He is handy with tools, his garden produces and, on the side, he runs two lucrative, if Fibber-style, ventures. One is a factory making sandblasting equipment. The other is the Kansas City bottling plant of Hires Root Beer...