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Spring is the season of floods too, and in Mott, N. Dak., the Cannonball River was running through the southern end of Main Street last week, and 92 families had to be evacuated. On the Pacific Coast, the hills around San Francisco are green for the first time in three years, but the Pacific Coast Highway was narrowed to two lanes for long stretches because of the mud slides. In Los Angeles, many overflowing drainage systems sent rivulets flowing down apartment corridors...
...mercury plunged, too, in the Midwest, where temperatures dropped as low as -25° in Bismarck, N. Dak., and -17° in Minneapolis. But there and in the West, the weather was so bad that it turned out to be good: the rain and snow fell in such massive volume that the worrisome two-year-old drought seemed virtually to be over...
...strode into that world from the fruited plains of Velva, N. Dak., where his father, the son of a Norwegian immigrant, worked as a local banker. As a boy, Sevareid would gaze out a window of the Velva schoolhouse at vast, monotonous fields of wheat and dream of the distant cities pictured in his geography book. He escaped: to Minneapolis, where his family fled when drought hit Velva and where he went to the University of Minnesota; to Europe, where Edward R. Murrow hired him in 1939 for CBS's illustrious wartime team; to Washington, where...
...arguments were for both committees, only one survived the reorganization. The Special Committee on Aging was made a permanent Senate special committee by a unanimous vote on the Senate floor (a few Senators, however, abstained). Encouraged by this vote, Nutrition Committee Chairman George McGovern (D.-S. Dak.), Sens. Robert Dole (R.-Kan.), Hubert Humphrey (D.-Minn.), Henry Bellmon (R.-Okla.), Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D.-Mass.) and others fought to extend the Nutrition Committee on a year-by-year basis, as had been done in the past. Nutritions ranking minority member Charles Percy (R.-Ill.) made the impassioned plea...
Finley, N. Dak...