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...Maine, clanged through the streets of Sioux City, Iowa, in a fireman's hat, was greeted on the green in New Haven, Conn., by Sybil, a seven-year-old elephant with a Rockefeller sticker on her trunk, and dropped in at the famous Humphrey drugstore in Huron, S. Dak., to pick up gifts for Happy and the two boys; when the $21.08 bill was rung up, he had to borrow $1 from an aide and 8? from a LIFE reporter...
...Against all odds, McCarthy goes on to win the nomination himself, then drafts Humphrey as his running mate (experience counts). To circumvent the constitutional problem raised by having two candidates from the same state, Team Player Humphrey relocates to an apartment over the family drugstore in Huron, S. Dak...
...Communist buildup in the Highlands is already under way, seeping out from Laos toward the string of allied fire bases and such Special Forces camps as Dak To, where some of the bloodiest fighting of the war took place last fall. Moving in bad weather, North Vietnamese are filtering along the mountain ridges and positioning themselves close to Route 14, along which most of the 250,000 people in the Highlands live. Their aim is to capture Kontum and hold it for at least a while, thus scoring a propaganda victory; but they cannot begin to do that until they...
...York Thruway (Interstate 90), continue through Pennsylvania to Interstate 71 leading to the Ohio Turnpike and Indiana Toll Road (both posted Interstate 80/90), then, using the recently completed Chicago bypass, proceed on Interstate 80 to the outskirts of Council Bluffs, Iowa, join Interstate 29 to Sioux Falls, S. Dak., and then back on Interstate 90 to Chamberlain, S. Dak. - all without a stoplight. Total distance: 1,802 mi. Total tolls...
...messianic ritual meant to bring back the buffalo and ward off white bullets, the original Ghost Dance movement was not infallible. At Wounded Knee, S. Dak., on Dec. 29, 1890, more than 200 Sioux Ghost Dancers were machine-gunned to death by the U.S. cavalry in the last "engagement" of the Indian wars...