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Snowboard's Saga. That map-or drawings purporting to be the map-has been appearing, disappearing and reappearing ever since. In the 1870s a German prospector, Jacob ("Dutchman") Waltz, called "Snowbeard" by the Indians, killed at least five men in getting his hands on the map. For years afterward, Waltz lived with a quadroon girl in an adobe hut in Phoenix, periodically slipped into the crags of Superstition Mountain to replenish his supply of nuggets...
Among advocates of more federal spending, the figure 5% has become a sort of magic number of yearly economic growth. "Our economy," says Walter Reuther, "should be expanding, at the very least, at a rate of 5% a year." Average yearly rate since the 1870s: 3%. In their swelling stack of pamphlets, proponents of 5%-a-year growth do not argue the realism of their goal in hard economic terms. As authority for it, they point out that last spring a Rockefeller Brothers Fund panel, sprinkled with big businessmen, urged a 5% growth rate...
Said Dostoevsky: "If there is no everlasting God, there is no such thing as virtue." The Possessed was partly written to illuminate that point. The book swept from Russia's liberals, who reveled in sentimental idealism, straight to the awful result: the young nihilists of the 1870s, who believed that terrorism was justified as a means to political reform. Camus read the book at 20 ("A soul-shaking experience"). Like Dostoevsky, Camus broods about the ailment of freedom without God, about political mass murder in the name of life and the future. Although he has been unable to accept...
...Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). A rerun of last year's success, Trail to Christmas. Jimmy Stewart manages to take Scrooge, Cratchit and Marley's ghost to the U.S. cow towns of the 1870s...
Face of Prejudice. In the current script, Town's locale was moved to "a small Southwestern town in the 1870s." Emmett Till became a romantic Mexican youth who loved the storekeeper's wife, but only "with his eyes." Throughout the 120-page script, network and sponsors (which include Allstate Insurance, American Gas & Electric, Bristol-Myers, Kimberly-Clark, Pillsbury Mills, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco) suggested changes. An earlier lynch victim was named Clemson; this was changed because South Carolina has an all-white college of that name. The ad agency for Allstate Insurance vetoed a suicide in the story...