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...Harvard player, for example, said that football is too grueling to be considered in the same light as year-round crew. Football, he continued, demands excessive nervous energy and constant imperviousness to injury...
...Columbia University under famed Enrico Fermi. Days he measured the mes on; nights he ground out magazine stories and suspense novels (Footsteps Behind Her, Stalk the Hunter}. Finding his dou ble life profitable but pointless, Wilson ended both careers, later moved to Martha's Vineyard as a year-round resident to write "of serious things...
Hugging the Mexican border 225 miles southeast of Los Angeles lies California's Imperial Valley, a sprawling 600,000-acre oasis of mineral-rich soil and year-round sun, surrounded by the trackless wastes of the Colorado Desert. Irrigated by aqueducts from the Colorado River, this below-sea-level island in the desert yields $150 million-a-year worth of diversified agricultural products ranging from Syrian plumcots to Pakistani grapes, has nurtured a breed of rugged, Stetson-crowned farm millionaires. Last week, in a melee of millionaires, deputy sheriffs, pickets and Mexican braceros, labor violence reminiscent of the brawling...
John Bouvier III was a swarthily handsome stockbroker who cut a dashing figure around New York and, because of his year-round suntan, was known variously as "Black Jack," "the Black Orchid" and "the Sheik." His marriage in East Hampton to Janet Lee, the handsome daughter of an indigo-blueblooded, wealthy (Manhattan real estate, banking) family, was a major event in the 1928 summer season. And just one year later, the Bouvier family doctor was summoned from Manhattan to preside at the birth of Jacqueline...
...which at least 6% of the workers are unemployed and the total has run at least 50% above the national average for four of the last five years. The U.S. has 19 major depressed areas and dozens of minor ones scattered from Washington to Maine, most of them concentrated in the industrial East. They account for more than half a million unemployed workers for whom recession is a year-round, inescapable fact even when the nation's economy is booming. Both parties introduced bills to aid depressed areas in the last Congress, but squabbled them to death. The cost...