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...competition from other forms of political advertising. "Television has made the biggest cut into our business," laments Frank Boston, a button manufacturer in Illinois. Now orders are 5,000 to 10,000 a whack, compared with as high as 100,000 in better button days. Another manufacturer, William Crookston of Los Angeles, is pinning his own hopes on producing buttons for fast food chains to distribute to youthful customers. Future generations may well ponder what turned the nation from preserving expressions like TIPPECANOE AND TYLER TOO to BUY ME-I'M A CARROT CAKE...
WHEN the people of Crookston, Minn., looked out their windows one morning last week, they were reassured. Their city was still there. Despite a brutal, 70-hour battering by the rampaging Red Lake River, Crookston had survived relatively undamaged. Other communities in the upper Midwest were not so fortunate. Swollen by the heaviest accumulation of melting snow in history, the region's rivers gushed over their banks and crested in five states -North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa. Tumbling gigantic chunks of ice before them, the torrents inundated vast areas, causing at least $31 million in damage...
Other communities had to go it alone. Some, such as Crookston (pop. 9,200), were prepared; experience had been a cruel teacher. In 1897, 1916 and again in 1950, the town had been devastated by floods. The Army engineers studied Crookston in 1943 and somehow concluded that it had no serious flooding problems, but the town disagreed and several years later began building a small dike system funded by local assessments and general taxes. By 1965, Crookston had 2.8 miles of new dikes, which cost nearly $63,000. The investment paid off immediately. The flood four years ago -the worst...
...Harvard Undergraduate Council has elected the following officers for the coming year: Daniel B. Magraw Jr. '68 of Winthrop House and St. Paul, Minn., president; Thomas S. Williamson Jr. '68 of Kirkland House and Piedmont, Calif., vice-president; and John D. Kelly '68 of Ediot House and Crookston, Minn., secretary-treasurer...