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Muttering into their beards, a cluster of black-hatted Amish farmers watched sullenly in Canton, Ohio last week, while an auctioneer sold off livestock confiscated by the U.S. Government. On religious grounds, Amishmen had refused to pay the social security levy-3⅜% of their own incomes-that the law demands of farmers. To satisfy the Government's claims, federal authorities in Ohio's Wayne and Holmes counties seized 28 head of livestock from 15 Amish farmers, seized cash assets of 50 others...
...Does Mr. Hoover think that Christ gave John a "Revolution"? JOAN HUGHES Canton, Ohio Freedom on Fiji SIR: MOHAMMED TORAH's SNEER ABOUT FIJI AS WHITE MAN'S PARADISE, BLACK MAN'S HELL [TIME, Sept. 22] is RIDICULOUS. IN FIJI NEA LY 35O,OOO PEOPLE OF SEVERAL RACES LIVE AMICABLY. STANDARDS OF LIVING ARE HIGH...
...because they were salty sailors. Blonde, blue-eyed Betsy Wolfe, 22, sleek as a twelve-meter yacht, and an old crewing hand, turned out so well for the Schenectady (N.Y.) Gazette that her salary was raised from $6 a story to $100 for the final week. Covering for the Canton (Ohio) Repository was Lawyer
...tall, lithe man with greying blond hair, Lawrence never looked his years. Born in Canton, S. Dak. of Norwegian stock, the son of a superintendent of schools, he was a radio tinkerer in high school, worked his way through local Midwestern colleges. His interest in radio led him to a Ph.D. in physics at Yale (1925), and he began studying ionization, the electrification of atoms by loss or gain of electrons. At 27 he was made an associate professor at the University of California, in 1930 conceived the idea of the cyclotron, which has been called "as useful in research...
...sort of migrant Middle Westerner, thanks to his father's job with the New York Central Railroad, which kept the family forever on the move, Jack Paar was born in Canton, Ohio on May 1, 1917. With time out for a stretch in Detroit, he did most of his growing up in Jackson, Mich. But wherever he went, his childhood memories are almost all somber ("I never had a childhood. I was born an old man"). When he was five, an older brother was killed by a car. All that comes back to Jack from his tenth year...