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...late summer of 1946, when she wrote to North Dakota's Senator Milton R. Young, Mrs. Matt Fischer was in what she described as "a desperate situation." She was seven months pregnant with her second child and her husband, an Army staff sergeant, was stationed in Vienna. If she had to have her child at home in Bismarck, N. Dak., it would "take something very vital from [her] marriage." She wanted to join her husband in Vienna...
...NATION Stain in the Air Autumn came to the U.S. last week with a souse of wet snow on Denver, a spatter of cold rain on South Dakota's Black Hills, a chill wind in Chicago that moved on to New York. Autumn found the nation prosperous as never before, its people uneasy as seldom before...
...Senate took exactly four minutes to confirm Robert Abercrombie Lovett as the new Secretary of Defense; it happened to be on Lovett's 56th birthday. There was only one hitch. North Dakota's isolated Bill Langer wanted to know whether this was the Robert Morss Lovett who had been investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1943.* Assured that it was not, Langer made the vote unanimous...
...under construction in this country," he ad-libbed solemnly, "not only the one which we all fear the most, but there are some weapons which are fantastic in their operation." Most of Washington regarded this as just another Truman ad-liberty, but one reporter dug up North Dakota's garrulous Milton Young, a member of the Senate committee which had been considering the $5 billion, and asked him to comment...
...return for the butts, which the chapel could not use. Seattle hotel and restaurant men gave enough money for a $2,500 organ. One rainy day, when Dirks needed 28 men to help pour the concrete foundations, exactly 28 turned up. The last man to arrive was from North Dakota; he had read about the chapel, on the mainland, and decided to come over and help. "It's a miracle in the woods," said Dirks...