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...wooden-floored rubber raft, they set out for a threeday, 71-mile ride down the utterly uninhabited Middle Fork of the Salmon River. To be sure, Secret Service agents bobbed along near by in other rafts, and rotating teams of reporters trailed at a distance???but with firm orders to keep out of the President's sight. Indeed, as Carter cast off, he aimed his own 35-mm camera at a mob of photographers and joked: "This'll remind me of what I'm leaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rafting in the Rockies | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...laws of nature. French Social Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss compares today's human condition to that of maggots in a sack of flour: "When the population of these worms increases, even before they meet, before they become conscious of one another, they secrete certain toxins that kill at a distance???that is, they poison the flour they are in, and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Fighting to Save the Earth from Man | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

...President, in Rapid City, took a telephone receiver off its hook, called Washington, D. C., got his connection in three seconds. The time was said to be a new record for the distance???some 2600 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

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