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...very active brainwashing society well organized in this country. I'm glad they are not afraid to speak up. Of course if they are in support of the House Un-American committee and against the Peace Corps and so-called Freedom Riders, and want to uphold Washington, Jefferson and Franklin, then they will probably be silenced by some federal court order...
...outdoor amphitheater at Williamsburg, Va., Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence downstage left. In Boone, N.C., Daniel Boone stalks around a stage slightly larger than an elbow of the great Catawba River. And with annual punctuality and a sound like muslin ripping, gunshots in New Mexico signal The Last Escape of Billy the Kid. Mixing fact, fiction, sentiment and gunpowder, the U.S.'s grandiose, often grandiloquent summer pageant plays provide a basic drive-in course in history for more than 5,000,000 people a year, some of whom are surprised to learn that the first De Soto...
...Denton Cooley and colleagues in the A.M.A. Journal. A woman of 37 was sent home, apparently doing well, eleven days after a hysterectomy. Next morning, as she climbed out of the bathtub, she collapsed, gasping for breath and suffering intense pain in the chest. Back she went to Jefferson Davis Hospital, where doctors did everything possible to boost her blood pressure and reduce the risk of further clotting. She was failing fast, 40 hours after her embolism, when Surgeon Cooley recommended a daring operation to clean out the clots from her pulmonary artery and lungs...
...Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Joseph Cabell...
Well before the birth of the Republic, wealthy individuals gave generously to public education. This week, for reasons that probably are closer to Jefferson's first retribution than to his second, a trio of privately endowed charitable trusts continued the tradition...