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...reporting assignment was handed to Frank McCulloch, who was about to take over as chief of TIME's Los Angeles bureau. It was a Los Angeles-sized assignment: report, in words and pictures, the phenomenal industrial and human growth that in less than a century had turned a patch of sand in Southern California into the greatest megalopolis...
Today-only 71 years later-Los Angeles groans in the echo of that cry. A once meager patch of sand in Southern California, its rubber-band boundaries stretch past a natural basin rimmed by mountains, flow over the hilltops and peaks into the valleys and deserts beyond, nudge the very Pacific beaches...
Last week Nasser sent his No. 1 military man, Major General Abdel Hakim Amer, scurrying off to neighboring Saudi Arabia to patch things up with oil-rich King Saud. Earlier in the week, sitting before the cameras of Britain's Independent Television News-as Russia's Khrushchev did for CBS in the U.S.-Nasser sent an amiable grimace into several million British living rooms. "I'm sorry," he said, "about that period of bad relations between Britain and Egypt. We hope that both countries will work for good relations in order to be friendly again...
Smith College's Howard Rollin Patch, 67, for years one of the most formidable figures on campus ("Examinations should be written as if the students were under gunfire"). A Harvard Ph.D., Patch became an authority on Chaucer, was so identified with his hero that a student once greeted him, "Good morning, Mr. Chaucer." His composed reply: "Just call me Geoff." Looking, as one colleague put it, "like the president of a country-almost any country," erect, white-haired Howard Patch not only charmed and terrorized students ("they have to submit to the possibility of ridicule, stand up under criticism...
Brunei (pronounced broon-eye) later fell upon hard times. In 1888, reduced to an impoverished patch of mangrove swamp about the size of the state of Delaware, it was forced to accept British protection. The British set up a few roads, schools and hospitals, put a Resident in charge to keep an eye on the local Sultan, and, for the rest, let Brunei wallow in its primitive backwash...