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...friendliness and trust in others." In the burned-out mining towns of Appalachia, ninth-generation Anglo-Saxon American men cluster around TV sets that blare from the grim, grimy tar-paper shacks. "They're not much interested in what's on the screen," says John D. Rockefeller IV, a 28-year-old poverty worker in West Virginia, "but it gives them something to watch and pass the long hours...
...When Marshall Field died, everything was going right for him," said Katherine, his second wife, who divorced him in 1963. She was talking about the publishing business, and her assessment was correct. When Marshall Field IV died fortnight ago at 49 (TIME, Sept. 24), Field Enterprises, Inc., was at its peak...
...citizens' groups loudly oppose it, contending that fluoridation is a Communist plot to poison the nation. Amidst this fuss, two University of Rochester professors last week published a massive monograph with all the pertinent facts, pro and con, on the matter. In their 786-page Fluorine Chemistry, Volume IV (Academic Press; $28), Dr. Harold C. Hodge and Dr. Frank A. Smith compile the important evidence that has been gathered since the effects of fluoride on teeth were first observed by Dentist Frederick S. McKay in Colorado Springs 50 years ago. Their findings...
...answer to Reader Rosey's query [July 30], "Was this trip necessary?": I believe that the 1965 Mariner IV trip to Mars was no more necessary than the 1492 Columbus trip to America-but Mariner's impact on mankind may be greater...
When the full set of Martian pictures taken by the spaceship Mariner IV was released last week, Mariner's earth-bound master, Physicist William H. Pickering, had the White House itself as his gallery. President Johnson was on hand to present awards to Pickering and two other Mariner scientists.* For cautious experts, the best of the photographs neither proved nor precluded the possible existence of life on Mars, although the planet's rugged terrain seemed hardly hospitable enough for the hardiest of bacteria. The pictures were clearer and sharper than anyone had expected. At least one of them...