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...also managed to reach many of those old ladies of 34 and up whom Redbook says it does not want-even though they comprise about 55% of the magazine's approximately 4,000,-000 women readers. The reaction was scornful. "Since I'm rapidly approaching the ripe old age of 46," wrote one subscriber, "I guess you don't want me. So you may be assured I have subscribed for the last time." From the mature perspective of 38 years, another reader informed the magazine: "I don't think I'll bother tottering...
...every brush stroke were their last. They are totally uninterested in the haunting, elusive landscape that for centuries has been the obsession of English painters. Rather, it is the minor and least honored theme of English art, literary painting, that has primed their vision. The time may be ripe for them. Among collectors and critics, weary of the inward-turned, paint-for-paint's-sake language of abstract expressionists, almost any lively new departure stirs serious interest...
...expires at year's end. Newly developed pickers that enable 13 men to do the job of 60 harvested 10% of the California tomato crop this year. A Salinas firm has just started making a phrenological lettuce picker-it feels each head to determine if it is ripe-invented by agricultural engineers at the University of California. Other promising machines: a contraption that shakes peaches off trees into an inverted canvas umbrella, one that picks raisin grapes from trellised vines, one that plucks ripe cantaloupes from the earth while leaving green melons to mature...
...time is ripe not for tinkering, but for real reform," says the council's executive director, George H. Baird, 41. His goal is overhauling the curriculum from kindergarten through high school. When that task is done, the council expects to be able to send its high-school graduates to college knowing as much as the average present-day college sophomore or junior...
Across the Line. Dixmoor, just south of Chicago's city limits, had hardly seemed ripe for racial trouble. The average family income there is $5,000 to $7,000. Some 60% of Dixmoor's 3,100 residents are Negroes, many of whom are white-collar workers living in $10,000-to-$15,000 single-family homes or in attractive new apartment buildings. Three of Dixmoor's six governing trustees are Negroes, as are half of its part-time police force. But for all that, civil rights leaders in the Dixmoor-Harvey area charge that Negroes are discriminated...