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With editorial staffers gathered uneasily around him, Managing Editor Ted Brooks of the Wichita, Kans. Beacon (circ. 94,434) in one sentence passed on the unhappy news...
Performing with the enthusiasm of oldtime, touring vaudevillians, they swung across the state-Houston. Dallas, Wichita Falls, El Paso, Odessa-unwilted by 100° heat, shook as many as 2,500 hands a day, made their pitch at morning "coffees," afternoon teas and press conferences. Lady Bird explained Lyndon with wifely conviction: "Lyndon is the same man as before. He has never been embraced by extreme liberals or extreme conservatives." Ethel got an admiring gasp when she was introduced as the mother of seven children. Eunice drew sober attention with a summary of her brother's war record...
Patterns & Shapes. During its electronic lifetime, Tiros I photographed away much of the atmosphere's privacy. On May 19, for instance, the camera pictured a bright, square cloud in an isolated position about 50 miles northwest of Wichita Falls, Texas (see cut). Weathermen had no previous reports of such a formation. They looked up the records and found that this peculiar cloud had moved northeastward and raked Oklahoma with four tornadoes. When future weather satellites take to space, one mission will be to watch for clouds of this sort and warn against them before they start doing damage...
...GOULDNER Wichita, Kans...
...substitute is preferable to a long walk, machine manufacturers have improved the quality and reliability of vending machines by employing the latest advances in refrigeration and electronics. Kansas City's Vendo Co. has set up completely automatic snack bars at the University of Kansas and the University of Wichita, offering sandwiches, milk, coffee, pastry and juices. Vendo, which expects 1960 sales of at least $50 million and profits of $2.50 per share, is setting up an automatic drive-in with a complete menu on Kansas City's South Side. Says Vendo's Board Chairman Elmer F. Pierson...