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...feel that he will be a major factor in the coming election. His life is given to the ambassadorship in South Viet Nam; his campaigning will be done by loyal supporters. Richard Nixon, I believe, is the man who can best lead the Republicans to victory. LUTHER FRETTE Fergus Falls, Minn...
...students. History, economics, Chinese, Spanish, and French tables meet regularly, offering wine and East House girls as added attractions. A play reading group holds frequent sessions, and in the handsome wood-paneled House library enliven many Sunday afternoons. Two House publications the Dunster Drama Review and the Fergus, a literary magazine appear sporadically throughout the year...
...buying the shoddy, ill-fitting Russian clothes, the family imports its wardrobe from London. Mark, whose Russian is excellent, goes regularly to his job as editor of the Soviet monthly, International Affairs; Natasha edits the translations of Russian stories in the biweekly English-language newspaper, Moscow News. Their children. Fergus, 13, Donald, 11, and Melinda, 6, have spent three years at Soviet schools and are as fluent in Russian as in English...
...deficit, was out to win new fans by playing in movie houses, churches, synagogues and high-school auditoriums (one concert will be sponsored by the Katz Drug Co.; admittance: a cash-register receipt). Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera opens this week with Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, while in Fergus Falls, Minn. (pop. 14,000) a bravura rendering of Norwegian folk songs was given by a 70-voice male chorus, and 300 citizens were studying Handel's Messiah for a Christmas performance...
...Vernon Richter, the joy of farming had vanished; life on a 4OO-acre rented farm near Fergus Falls, Minn, had become a grim effort to survive. Through the freezing winter Richter, 31, cared for his six small children so that his wife could clerk in a Fergus Falls clothing store. When spring came he went into his fields at 4 a.m., stayed until midnight fighting the soil for a fuller yield. But the bills piled...