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LaGrange, Ga...
...baseball uniform; waxed flowers from President Garfield's funeral; L.B.J FOR PRESIDENT lollipops in the shape of Texas; a swatch of material from the Red Baron's plane wing; a "Mr. Bones" skeleton puppet used in a vaudeville show; Jimmy Carter's hymn book from Plains, Ga.; and a tie box full of old gallstones...
...There will be a wreath-laying ceremony at Roosevelt's birthplace in Hyde Park, and a birthday cake will be served where he died, in Warm Springs, Ga., the mineral-water health resort that he regularly visited for treatment of his physical afflictions...
...epic status, and the day was being widely touted as The Coldest of the 20th Century. Statisticians at the National Weather Service were unwilling to go that far. Yet it was they who confirmed that, indeed, alltime low-temperature records were broken in Chicago (-26°F) and Augusta, Ga. (1°), among other places, while Atlanta ( - 5°), Milwaukee (-25°) and Cincinnati (-14°) had not been so cold since the 1800s. Single-day records for the date were set in Washington (2°), Philadelphia (1°), St. Cloud, Minn. ( - 30°), and in nine Florida cities, including...
...that mean a shooting war, or will one of those mysterious "threats to national security" do the trick? Clearly, it's a matter of when the political pressure in favor of a draft overwhelms the President's dubious enthusiasm for the all-volunteer force. With Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and his hawkish honchos on Capitol Hill gunning hard, a draft within the next several years wouldn't be at all shocking...