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Ever since he beheld her curly head in an Independence, Mo., Sunday school one morning in 1890, when he was six and she was five, Harry Truman remained devoted to his beloved Bess. As a young dirt farmer in nearby Grandview, he courted her by mail, weaving words of affection amid tales of work. Over the years his work changed, but the love letters remained a constant, spinning a chronicle of changing times and undying values...
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Looking for new waste sites, a private company has purchased obsolete Titan I missile silos in an Idaho desert. Near Grandview, three 160-ft.-deep holes, lined with 6-ft.-thick concrete walls and 13-ft.-thick concrete floors, are each being used to store some 1.5 million cu. ft. of wastes. Several European companies are using incinerator ships to burn chemical wastes at sea. Costle feels that U.S. private industry, rather than Government, should devise safe disposal techniques. Says he: "It's smarter and can do the job more efficiently than the Government...