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Lewis' troubles began last December, after the Walnut town fathers refused his demand that they build a road to his one-acre lot on a bungalow-filled slope grandly misnamed Castle Hill. His wife Eva threatened to retaliate by selling the property to Negroes...
...have reason to be more optimistic. Consumer spending has been holding at a high $20 billion monthly, auto sales are still setting records, and the annual rates of Government and business capital spending are each expected to jump $3 billion in the second half. And though business profits usually slope off as a recovery ages, reports of second-quarter earnings so far are unusually good. Average gains by industries...
Time was when some of the gamiest reading this side of Paris was to be found in the instructive pages of the marriage manuals. "In this little book," says the preface to the 1939 edition of Married Love, "Dr. Marie Slopes deals with subjects which are generally regarded as too sacred for an entirely frank treatment." Many a young heart thrilled with pleasant astonishment at Dr. Slope's revelation that "most women ... do at times feel a physical yearning indescribable, but as profound as hunger for food." Generations of schoolboys have plowed eagerly through the verbal thickets of Ideal...
Even the titles are different. The modern manual eschews Slope's love and Van de Velde's ideal and bears down hard on guilt. WHO is TO BLAME FOR SEXUAL UNHAPPINESS IN MARRIAGE? probes the headline of a full-page ad for a book called The Sexually Happy Wife. Duty rather than pleasure keynotes a volume by Writer Maxine Davis: Sexual Responsibility in Marriage...
...Whittaker started climbing as a Boy Scout in the early 1940s. By the time he and his twin brother Lou were in high school, they were expert enough to join Seattle's Mountain Rescue Council. The twins spent college summers guiding footsore tourists up the steep slopes of 14,408-ft. Mount Rainier; in all, they scaled Rainier something like 70 times. Three years ago, Jim and Lou were members of an ill-fated expedition that got stranded for four days on Alaska's 20,320-ft. Mount McKinley when one of the climbers slipped and pulled...