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...return from New Guinea, a stricken Rockefeller threw himself into his job, working harder than he ever had in his life. He managed to dispose of 300 bills during a successful legislative session, took action on another 1,000 during the 30-day bill-signing ordeal that New York imposes on its Governors. Then he began a bone-wearying round of regional planning trips around the state, making speeches, presiding at dedications, and attending policy meetings. Often, he got only four or five hours of sleep a night; occasionally he became numb and bristly...
...Drifter. Carpenter's father, a chemist, and his mother separated soon after Scott was born. Stricken with tuberculosis, his mother went into a Colorado sanitarium, and Carpenter was raised in Boulder, Colo., by his maternal grandfather, Editor Victor Noxon of the Boulder County Miner and Farmer. (The Noxon house stood on Aurora Street, a name that Carpenter later was to borrow for his space capsule.) The old man gave the boy his first lesson in self-reliance: how to live by hunting and fishing in the mountains of Colorado...
...famous pines of Rome, long the inspiration of poets and composers, have been stricken by a mysterious blight, which one newspaper attributed to a death wish on the part of the trees caused by Italy's booming capitalism. The trees, complained the paper, no longer want to live, faced with all the exhaust fumes from motorcars and "the streams of reinforced concrete that Rome, like a volcano, spews forth...
...Correspondent John Blashill made the journey through Brazil's poverty-stricken Northeast, a land as worrisome as "six Cubas." His searching report (see THE HEMISPHERE) makes the misery of the land apparent, and yet finds room to describe the elements around which hope may build...
Vanishing Vespa. Segni becomes President of a country that is more prosperous than ever-and less vulnerable than ever to the Communists. In the poverty-stricken south, income levels are still only half as high as in the industrial north, but Communist strength south of Naples is slipping. More than $2 billion in new industrial and agricultural developments in the south has created more jobs, raised the productivity of long-arid farmland. Foreign investors continue to treat Italy as a good risk; U.S. Steel is building a $16 million plant in partnership with the Italians. The unemployment rate...