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...trifle ragged in places. Which did nothing to discourage Director Ross. Stravinsky and the other stars won't be along, but soon Ross plans to pack up the Steinberg sets and a company of his regular troops to tour with Soldat throughout the state's mining towns, lumber camps and Indian reservations...
...papers for Eye Foundation, Inc., to which he eventually, gave $25,000. It took Dr. Callahan ten years to raise, by the same dollar-extraction technique, the rest of the $1,500,000 that he needed to get the hospital opened and operating. Along the way, he called on Lumber Millionaire Alfred S. Mitchell to ask for a donation. Mitchell was also having trouble with his eyes. An on-the-spot examination revealed cataracts, which Dr. Callahan later removed. Again, no bill. Mitchell wound up giving $25,000, and gifts from the foundation that administers the Mitchell estate have since...
...life. Nor did the Americans break up the vast estates of the principalia, the Filipino elite; peasants today still pay up to 30% of their crop to absentee landlords, and the rest often goes to local loan sharks. By granting free tariffs to Philippine producers of sugar, lumber and hemp, the U.S. reinforced a backward primary-product economy; today, a major irritant between Washington and Manila is the Laurel-Langley Trade Agreement of 1956, which perpetuates that error. Still, when the date came for Philippine independence, the U.S. kept its word. On July 4, 1946, for better or worse...
...biggest lumber-producing state in the U.S., Oregon has been hard hit by the nationwide slump in construction that resulted from the Administration's tight-money policies. Its voters are also unhappy over issues ranging from the future of the state's water reserves to the depredations of a Soviet fishing fleet 20 miles offshore. Yet the dominant theme of Oregon's leading electoral contest this fall is the Viet...
...that, if stretched out, would measure 10,000 miles. Inside the Barrier is Camp Radcliff (named for the first Cavalryman to die in Viet Nam), where some 2,100 structures are abuilding. They range from wood-and-tin hutments (to "get the troops off the mud") to an elegant lumber-and-natural-rock mess hall that advertises itself as "the Red Hawk...