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Nearness to the huge Mesabi iron-ore range and Midwestern grain fields has made Duluth, the western terminus of the St. Lawrence Seaway, one of the busiest ports in the U.S. But Duluth (pop. 106,-800) has another asset, which is making its own unique contribution to the growth of the thriving city: four big scholarship funds, including two in operation for the first time this year. They have raised the educational level of its high school system, and will support 286 Minnesota students on college scholarships this year, of whom all but 72 are graduates of Duluth high schools...
Potential Gains. U.S. shippers are slower to switch from time-tried methods of transport. Many a Midwestern grain exporter still prefers to barge his payload down the Mississippi to New Orleans, where shipping schedules are more regular and where the cargo can be put aboard 60,000-ton vessels that sometimes offer cheaper rates than the 15,000-ton ships plying the St. Lawrence. U.S. Seaway authorities want the Government to publicize the economic advantages of their route, but Congress is wary of favoring the waterways over the hard-lobbying railroads and truckers...
Summer had come with a rush. On the biggest holiday weekend of the season, highways were blue with the vapor trails of traffic. Eastern beaches were alive with humanity; campers struggled up the slopes of the Rockies, the Smokies and the high Sierra. On Midwestern lakes, motorboats roared over the placid water, pulling skiers like dragonflies behind. The U.S. seemed relaxed, and in regard to the people's personal affairs, it was. But beneath the suntanned surface, when U.S. citizens thought of their country there was uneasiness and discontent...
...Derby winners, including two holders of the Triple Crown, Whirlaway and Citation, whom he considered respectively his favorite and his greatest ("a Chinaman could train Citation"); of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. The Missouri-born banker's son launched himself as an owner-trainer-breeder on the Midwestern bullring circuit, learned to halter his foals the day after they dropped, fatten them on only the right food ("I can smell hay or feel it in the dark and tell whether horses will like it"), waste none of it on losing nags (his pet phrase: "Trade'm away...
...probably inevitable that Dylan Thomas, like Scott Fitzgerald, would sooner or later become a mark for the novelist, and equally inevitable that the fiction of his life would be beggared by the facts. Clem Anderson is a thinly disguised Midwestern incarnation of Thomas, and as the novel opens, he is 37, newly successful, about to marry a blonde Hollywood starlet, and already suffering the physical penalties of literary lionization-"the bloaty softness of his face, the bat's-flesh bags under his eyes." From that high or low point, Novelist Cassill traces the fever chart of Clem...