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...Missouri River country away from camp, and in May 1805, was credited with helping turn away a frightened buffalo that came close to trampling Lewis one night as the party was sleeping by the river. Scannon clearly played a major role in the historic mission conceived by Thomas Jefferson...
...different example of the personal trouble?and indeed tragedy?that may be related to the Calhoun bank's liberal lending policies was the apparent suicide of LaBelle Lance's brother, Beverly Banks David, a Jefferson City, Mo., school official. He was found dead on Nov. 24, 1974, in his car; he had started the engine while the garage doors were closed. When his Missouri estate was probated, his solely held assets were valued at $4,177. His wife was astounded to find, however, that the Calhoun National Bank claimed he owed it $254,222. Northwest Georgia Bank in Ringgold lodged...
...Carters, relaxing in blue jeans and sports clothes after the day's work, seem not to notice. "I like this balcony," muses the President, looking beyond the green sweep of the South Lawn and the Softball game in progress on the Ellipse to the great monuments to Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. "I often come out here at 6:30 in the morning, and on Sunday mornings we read the pa pers out here. It is beautiful. After sup per, after a banquet, I'll bring foreign leaders up here - Sadat, Schmidt...
...more interested in a balanced budget than a balanced diet." Benjamin Hooks, who was inaugurated last week as director of the NAACP, urged Carter to balance the budget by means of a "full economy, generating more jobs, more sales and more money." Said Nancy Jefferson, executive director of Chicago's Midwest Community Council, a black self-help organization: "There were lots of hopes and illusions when Carter was elected. People expected jobs to start rolling in, but it hasn't happened, and people are getting bitter...
...when Thundertrain bawls, "I'm hot, ho, hot, hot for teacher," there is no missing the point. The 1970s have been dominated by graduates of the 1960s rock era -Paul Simon and Paul McCartney moving out on their own, groups like the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Starship rambling on as before. The New Wave seems to be saying, "The superstars are dead. Long live the superstars." Down with the smooth confections of commercial rock, even the harmless purr of disco. Says one punk devotee: "Disco was the final straw." Willie ("Loco") Alexander, leader of a Boston...