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...pits bug against bug. Plant Pathologist Gary Strobel at Montana State University has been injecting pseudomonad bacteria into infected trees: the microbes multiply and attack the fungus. Strobel's program is still in the experimental stage, but there have been some modestly promising results. In Sioux Falls, S. Dak., for instance, injections were given to 20 badly diseased trees; seven were saved...
...name may sound lugubrious, but Deadwood, S. Dak. (pop. 1,974), has long been a pretty lively town. For more than 100 years it has sported some of the best little whorehouses in the West. Their combined commerce has, in fact, rivaled logging, mining and tourism as Deadwood's chief source of income. No longer. The bordellos have been closed down, and not all Deadwoodians are happy about...
According to a survey by the Lead (S. Dak.) Daily Call, 42% of the locals were in favor of leaving the houses open, vs. 35% supporting their closure. Some 40 proponents of licensed lust even held a parade on Main Street to support les girls. Sportin' house advocates point out that the ladies kept to their quarters and had regular medical checkups. "They sure kept a lot of strange men off the streets," says Gayle Williams, a barmaid at Saloon Number 10. They also contributed to local charities, as well as such causes as the Jaycees and the Little...
...events of Hubert Humphrey's life that drew him toward politics and Washington occurred in 1936 when some Department of Agriculture experts showed up at Doland, S. Dak., to plant scraggly pine trees that were to be part of a shelter belt from Canada to the Gulf, designed to slow down the remorseless prairie wind. As Hubert used to recall, the trees quickly died in the 100° heat but the act showed "that somebody back there cared...
...they crossed Wyoming, they encountered dangerous thunderstorms. Said Maxie: "I said to Kris, 'We could land and do this another day.' " The reply: "We'd better go for it." For six hours, they drifted in the center of the storms. Finally, over Rapid City, S. Dak., they broke into the clear, propelled eastward by winds that drove them up to 90 m.p.h. Then, as they crossed the Great Lakes, Maxie fell ill from lack of oxygen and too many cookies. Bundled in two sleeping bags against the subzero cold, Maxie switched to pure oxygen and recovered...