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...posted speed limit of sixty miles an hour. It should shorten the trip to New York by at least a half an hour or even more for the intrepid college motorist. The chief advantage of the road for the New York traveler is that it cuts out the bleak stretch comprising Routes 9 and 20 to the Wilbur Cross Parkway...
Peaceful, opposed to change and fiercely dedicated to hard work and to their fundamentalist religion, the Mennonites went to Mexico for the same reasons that they soon may choose to leave it: the land hunger of a burgeoning population, and an unshakable determination to live according to their own bleak code. After World War I, the Canadian government set out to homogenize its alien population groups, and the Mennonite settlements in Saskatchewan and Manitoba were told that their children would have to attend Canadian schools. Stubbornly refusing to obey, the German-speaking Mennonites, relatives of the plain folk of Pennsylvania...
...bleak and dust-swept ranges east of Albuquerque, N. Mex., high-school science students with a yen for space travel are designing and firing their own small rockets, and tracking them through the atmosphere. Near Cape Canaveral, Fla., tourists are staying in motels with such names as "The Sea Missile," eating in "Missile Barbecue," holding night parties on a beach where they can watch the distant pink glow of missile night firings; in the mornings, Florida fishermen bring up bits of the missiles in their nets. "Perhaps people sense that something momentous is about to occur," wrote a U.S. missileman...
...three second prizes of $25 were won by William Bassetti '59, Duane J. Murner '58 and John E. Trent '57. The first two gave excerpts from "Huckleberry Finn" and "Bleak House" by Dickens. Trent delivered the Nobel Prize Acceptance speech of William Faulkner...
Painting an unmelting, bleak, cynical portrait of the road to prostitution, the plot involves a girl whose mother was early gotten with child and was left by her lover to a life of menial toil. The mother wants her child to have a "better life," ease and riches, etc. She sets her buxom daughter up as an artist's model with hopes that she will make "connections." The daughter is picked up by a chauffeur on his day off and has a very earnest affair with him, finally becoming engaged. While he is out of town, a fellow-model persuades...