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...town of Woodward (pop. 8,000) in the heart of northwest Oklahoma's wheat country is a quiet kind of place, typical of farming regions where elbowroom, sunshine and plenty of fresh air are as free as the wind in the fields. There, last week, Robert Smith, 12, and his brother David, 10, got home from Sunday school at the United Brethren Church, ate their lunch and set out together for the movies. On the way, Robert broke into a local surplus supply store, stole four .22-cal. pistols...
...Elbowroom & Gun Buses. The boss of this giant combine is handsome, white-haired Sir Ronald Weeks, 64, who was a Tommy in World War I (Distinguished Service Cross), after the war worked his way up the rungs of Vickers to become chairman in 1948. The last Vickers family interest was dissolved 25 years ago, and the company is now owned by 65,000 stockholders. But when Edward Vickers founded Vickers to make steel in 1828, he set out to make it big by diversification...
Ironically, the granddaughter of the girl who stamped into a business office as her right, says Author Jensen, is often stranded behind a typewriter out of necessity. While winning elbowroom at the men's bar, she has lost her seat in the subway. Where the advance-guard girl once fought to get into college and out of corsets, she now fights to stay out of the divorce courts and off the analyst's couch But most of Author Jensen's photos go back to the days when the U.S. woman was just trying on her "new freedom...
...according to John U. Monro '34, Director of the Financial Aid Center, (above) the Student Employment needed elbowroom and Financial Aid was too far away from sister offices like the Student Placement Office in Weld...
...were they going? They gave a great variety of answers. Few admitted that their Aussie wives (or fiancees still waiting for them Down Under) had anything to do with it. Some were going for the adventure. Wrote one: "New land. Less people. More elbowroom." Some thought they would have a better chance than in the U.S. to start businesses of their own. Many had been taken with the Australian climate and pace of living. Wrote ex-G.I. George Mason: "[Down there], Babbitts and go-getters are conspicuously absent. The people are happy, and in no hurry to slaughter themselves...