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...week and used their ballots to cure a strange malady-a perennial case of "one of our hospitals is missing." Beginning ten years ago, to care for the needy ill of the mushrooming oil-rich city and surrounding Harris County, $12 million was set aside. It was plain that Jefferson Davis Hospital was hopelessly inadequate. Overcrowding was rated a major factor this year in the deaths of 18 babies in a staphylococcus epidemic (TIME. March 31). Still no hospital was in sight...
...with faction fights and feuds. Last fortnight State Senator Gaylord Nelson, Democratic candidate for Governor against hard-to-beat G.O.P. incumbent Governor Vernon Thomson, launched a crunching head-on attack against Ticket-Mate Bill Proxmire. Reason: Proxmire invited Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson to speak at Milwaukee's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner on May 17, and even though Johnson could not come, Nelson took after him as the spokesman for Texas oil interests inimical to Wisconsin liberalism. Beyond that, Proxmire is losing the devotion of many fundamentally conservative Wisconsin independents for his high-spending recommendations in the Senate...
Fortnight ago the contest went into a finale that surprised even Burden. At a minute past midnight of Sunday, May u, the value of the prize was to plunge to a piddling $1,000. Suddenly the clues grew tantalizingly specific, zeroed in on a fast-developing Denver suburb in Jefferson County. A weekend mob of some 25,000 people converged on the area, besieged it round the clock. The treasure hunters climbed trees, trampled new lawns, rummaged through garbage cans, shined flashlights into bedrooms, invaded homes to use toilets, even scaled a householder's roof to case his chimney...
What they sought was liberty under law, no less and no more than justice in a moral universe. It is self-evident, wrote Deist Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, that all men "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights," that "among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." and that "to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among...
Dunster House: M. Mark Earle, Jefferson T. Eaton, Howard R. Hall, Gordon A. Marlow, Stuart Troy, and Paul...