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...California. 76-year-old Krikor Arakelian read the stories. Arakelian was the watermelon king of Southern California and the owner of Mission Bell wines. He was a millionaire many times over. But no amount of money seemed able to cure his son, a hopeless epileptic since his head was injured in an auto accident. Arakelian made up his mind to send for Avak. Last week the faith healer of Azerbaijan arrived at Los Angeles' municipal airport, dressed in the long robes of a Gregorian Communicant, with matted beard and shoulder-length hair framing his pallid face...
...trail to Anapolis through 100 miles of forests. He soon turned this into the state's best road. Down it last year the colony's trucks carried 30 different products to market-including 20,000 bags of sugar, 12,000,000 pounds of watermelon, 120,000 dozen eggs, 50 jaguar skins...
...nearly 75% of all seed sales; now they were leveling off to a peacetime norm of slightly more than 50%. But vegetable growers, too, had plenty of novelties to choose from. Almost all seedsmen were featuring a new brownish-tinged lettuce called Bronze Beauty. Other attractions: a midget watermelon (Schling), a hybrid eggplant (Burpee), a yellow sweet pepper (Manhattan's Peter Henderson), a "giant tree tomato" (Vaughan's of Chicago...
...dawn, we discovered our tents in shreds and all the control and window surfaces of our B-29's wrecked, but the chances of dodging the larger chunks of falling lava (the biggest I saw was the size of a small watermelon) appeared good enough, and the natural rain from the clouds which formed under the great tornado of smoke overhead managed to allay the sulfuric fumes...
Texas had enough candidates, issues, mudslinging and free watermelon to stock half a dozen southern Democratic primaries. But the voters who worked the polls in record numbers last week seemed vaguely dissatisfied. The trouble was that the main event, the 14-man fight for the gubernatorial nomination, had produced no first-rate political showman. If there is anything a Texan abhors it is to have his candidates turn out less flamboyant than the issues they hawk...