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...been a keystone of American policy. Smithies devotes a few paragraphs to the people whose future he is planning. "The population is hardy and vigorous, particularly those that have come from the North," reads a typical passage. "The Chinese influence and incessant wars over the centuries have produced hardier stock than has (sic) Cambodia, Thailand and other countries that have been subject to Indian influence...
...Many of them were already diseased and dying. Using $500,000 from the James Foundation, which was established in 1938 by the will of Lucy Wortham James, great-granddaughter of pioneering Missouri Ironmaker Thomas James, the town decided to tear out the old trees and begin replacing them with hardier fast-growing holly, sweet gum and flowering crab...
...Governor, meanwhile, is cruising around the state as if the election were tomorrow, and looks hardier day by day. Though unloved for imposing the highest state taxes in the nation, he can point to an impressive record. During the eight years of Rockefeller rule, New York has made bold, pioneering advances in housing, education and conservation. Putting the telescope to his other eye, Nelson Rockefeller will undoubtedly descry the Great Society within the Empire State...
...worst turnouts was in Providence, where only 5,971 children, of an estimated 12,500 eligible, braved the storm. Hardier rural types ran the state's total up to 31,764 vaccinations...
...Army Chief of Staff also represents a breed that is now rare in the Pentagon-the battlefield hero. From infantry combat in the thick of two Asian wars, handsome "Johnny" Johnson came away with a dazzle of decorations and the single-minded conviction that the American soldier must be hardier, wilier and brainier than ever before if he is to win the kind of war that the U.S. faces in Asia today. "Johnson's spirit of intellect and leadership," says the 1st Air-Cavalry's Brigadier General Richard Knowles, "is felt by every private in Viet...