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...flew westward to San Francisco to address the International Industrial Development Conference, Vice President Richard Nixon did some heavy thinking. Nixon had never quite agreed, in National Security Council or Cabinet meetings, with the budget-first thinking that had put a $38-billion ceiling on defense spending. Now, in the second week of Sputnik, he drafted a speech that was considerably stronger than the President's own let's-keep-our-shirts-on position. Said Nixon, in effect, "Let's roll up our sleeves," and thereby he set the Administration on a realistic course between the hand...
AFTER the Moslem surge exploded out of Arabia in the 7th century and swept westward until it had engulfed Spain, one of the first areas to be liberated (by Charlemagne in 788) was Catalonia. There, in their outpost of Christianity, the proud, fiercely independent Catalans built their churches on the foothills of the Pyrenees, decorated them with some of the oldest European tempera murals and paintings still in existence. Long considered provincial copies of Byzantine art, less rich than the Moorish splendors of the Moslem mosques to the south, and primitive by comparison to the French Romanesque and Gothic triumphs...
...industry, which has moved its exploration steadily westward, came news last week that sent wildcatters racing back East. Near Conneaut, Ohio, only 50 miles from the first U.S. well at Titusville, Pa., a rich well came in in an area everyone thought was exhausted. The flow: an initial 6,720 bbl. daily v. an average ½ bbl. daily for the only remaining wells near by. The name of the man responsible for the strike was no surprise. He is old Mike Benedum, 88, the king of the wildcatters and a man who says proudly: "I have unloosed more oil than...
...Valley and the desert wastes beyond. And below, like the riffles in a child's papier-mache relief map, were the grey granite thrusts and the white snow splotches of California's rugged Sierra Nevada range. In this country, pioneers had baked-or frozen-as they struggled westward a century before. Eastbound Dave Steeves was due at his home base in Selma, Ala. in about four hours...
Twenty years later, John L. Sullivan had come to Boston from Roxbury. At the advent of another tavern renaissance, society began its journey westward from Beacon Hill to Brook-line and finally to Wayland, Weston, and Wellesley. Since 1900 the biggest thing that has happened to Boston is Mayor Curley, and he is still happening. The sale of his library at Lauriat's a week ago started a near riot...