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...Maurine filed for a seat in the lower house. Both, of course, ran as Democrats. Dick has said that people wonder why they insist on sticking to a party label that was such a liability in Oregon. He explains: "Evidently martyrdom suits our personalities. Maurine and I enjoy being caribou in timberwolf terrain. It gives us a sense of high adventure and derring-do." During legislative sessions in Salem, the Neubergers lived in a motel and built up a commendable liberal record (and a basic research for magazine articles) as an aggressive, incorruptible legislative team...
...babies, maintains hospitals for merchant seamen and dope addicts, an insane asylum and a leprosarium. Through the Office of Education, she distributes funds to land-grant colleges and administers the teacher-student exchange program with foreign countries. She is legally concerned with the problem of tapeworm control among Alaskan caribou, with cancer research, and with the attitude of Congress toward fluoridation of children's teeth. She prints Braille books, extends credit to deserving citizens, bosses the nation's largest Negro university (Howard, in Washington), and brings out new editions of the Government's most durable bestseller...
With that, Angus Cameron, who two years ago shot the eighth largest caribou on record, got ready for a hunting trip in Colorado. Counterattack reloaded for more blasts at Communist influence on the book-publishing business...
This spring, on orders from his bishop, Father Henri revisited civilization. Stopping off in Montreal, he was mildly appalled by the noise and glaring lights; he admitted that he found white men's beds uncomfortable after years of sleeping in caribou-skin bags. Last week, weighing the same 140 lbs. as when his mission began, he flew to France, where he will report to his superiors and recruit new Arctic missionaries. Next year Father Henri hopes to go back to the North, pioneer a new region, and spend his remaining days among the Eskimos he understands and loves...
...Caribou will have to produce more than a new president to convince Colorado mining men that the mine contains much uranium. After it was highly touted by Look magazine in 1948 as giving the U.S. "enough high-grade uranium for self-sufficiency in the atomic age," AEC Chairman David E. Lilienthal branded claims like Caribou's as "tragically untrue...