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...limit: gigantic dams, huge reservoirs, aqueducts that run for hundreds of miles, all proof-cast in concrete-of the legislators' concern for the folks back home. What is more, there is no sure way of measuring the true value of such projects, many of which have transformed the life-and the landscape-of America. "In the long run," says Washington's Senator Warren Magnuson, "we're going to win this fight." And history is on his side...
...there is also Frances Hallam Hurt's view of Chatham. The epitome of the genteel Southern lady, she sees Chatham, from the vantage point of her nearby estate, as "the last outpost of the good life-and surprisingly kind...
Whether Hays had purposefully tried to end his life-and his agony -was not immediately clear. Richard Phillips, Hays' family physician and friend, had prescribed Dalmane, a standard "hypnotic agent" or soporific, because the besieged Congressman was understandably tense. Hays also had been eating little and was suffering from diverticulitis, an intestinal ailment...
While the fate of Hughes' legacy was in doubt, the world could only once again try to probe the mysteries of his life-and death. There was even dispute over the cause of death. An autopsy in Houston, the home town that Hughes had not visited in 21 years, ascribed it to kidney poisoning. But a Summa Corp. spokesman insisted that Hughes had suffered a massive stroke two days earlier, forcing the emergency trip to Houston...
...home but will be noted and copied in Rio and in Rome, on the Ginza and the Avenue George V. After more than a century of obeisance to Europe's high priests of couture, American designers have won worldwide respect as creative interpreters of a way of life-and style. It is a rebellion and an achievement that has been building since World War II. But it has, in the eclectic fashion world of 1976, undeniably come of age and attained a new level of élan and confidence. "I think for the first time that the attitude that...