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...South Dakota last week became the 38th state to ratify the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, thereby making it the law of the land. The operative clause of the new amendment...
...next July 1, when the final checks for 1963 wheat are mailed out, farmers in the province of Saskatchewan alone will have received $448 million from all sources for their crop. Land values on the prairies are soaring out of sight, as U.S. farmers from Montana and North Dakota hurry across the border to get in on the bounty. One farmer in Alberta refused to deliver any of his winter crop until after the first of the year. His income for 1963 was already well over $100,000. "And that," he believes, "is enough for one year...
...Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Six of these states prohibit Negro white marriages in their constitutions. Eighteen states, most of them in the last ten years, have repealed anti-miscegenation statutes: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Washington...
Cubism's Alternative. Still was born on a North Dakota farm, got an M.A. from Washington State University. During World War II he drew blueprints; afterward, with Mark Rothko, he drew disciples to the avant-garde California School of Fine Arts, teaching the first serious alternative to cubism in recent art history...
During the final hours of debate, South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt introduced an amendment that would have prohibited the use of the Export-Import Bank to guarantee Russian payments to commercial traders in the U.S.-Soviet wheat deal. That threatened to throw the aid bill or the wheat deal-or both-back into a welter of confusion and conflict. Only under the urging of both Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen did Mundt finally agree to withdraw his amendment and to submit it later as separate legislation...