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...with a pickup truck, dishwashing, more frequently out of work, then abandoning the family; mother turning to alcohol; two brothers often in prison or reform school; one uncle a convict; life, with no privacy, in a farm shack near Ewing, Mo., and in a grandmother's house in Alton, Ill.; postwar service as an Army MP in Nurnberg, Germany; a discharge for a "lack of adaptability" to military service...
...after doing so, may simply permit a President to throw such decisions "back into Congress's lap"-to the lawmakers' political embarrassment. Ford may not have fully "consulted" Congress before he ordered U.S. armed strikes on Cambodia to free the crew of the Mayaguez merchant ship. But Alton Frye, a senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, argued that Ford had begun reporting to Congress, thus setting the stage to "trigger congressional deliberation" if the military operation had been prolonged or gone sour...
Among the state officials who benefited: Alton G. Marshall, Rockefeller's executive officer and secretary when Rocky was Governor, and later president of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, $306,867; James W. Gaynor, whom Rockefeller attracted to New York from Colorado to become state commissioner of housing and community renewal, $107,000; Henry L. Diamond, a conservation and ecology expert, head of the Department of Environmental Conservation under Rocky and now executive director of his Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, $100,006; Victor Borella, a special assistant on labor issues in Rockefeller's administration, $100,000; Hugh Morrow...
...problem of processing the garbage before it is plowed under will be handled by Alton Newell, a millionaire manufacturer of auto-shredding machines in San Antonio. Seeking to diversify his company, he is building a special, highly automated garbage-handling machine for Odessa. It will sort out the wastes and crush them into small pellets. Old paper and other leftovers will go to Dr. Stanford's project. Newell will sell the metal wastes to recyclers until he recoups the $600,000 construction cost of the machine, which he will then turn over to Odessa for $1. Meanwhile, the city...
...claimed 20 lives, routed 25,000 people from their homes and swamped 7,300,000 acres of rich farm land. At least 10% of this year's cotton crop and some of the soybean harvest were threatened. Upriver, as waters receded and mopping up began, farmers around West Alton, Mo., found nearly 10,000 acres of crops covered with silt and debris. But for the most part, the upper Mississippi was secure...