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Constitutional. In Lewisburg, Ohio, John F. Lock won a 52-year battle to get his rural mailbox moved 1,056 ft. nearer his home after he proved that he had already walked 6,250 miles to pick up his mail...
...pushed over by drifting sand. Mudballs form over the eyes of cattle, and wild geese fall dead with their bills and throats packed with dirt. At Field, N. Mex. (pop. 25), a dust storm halted the funeral of 73-year-old Mrs. Alice Towner, who had walked toward her mailbox in a previous storm, been swallowed by the blinding dust, wandered lost and helpless, and finally died in a nearby pasture. Oklahoma City's Engineer W. W. Baker estimated that one storm last week deposited 185,000 tons of dust on the city, enough to fill...
Having finally evicted tough little Dictator Adib Shishekly, Syria's successful conspirators spent their energies last week in emptying the ashtrays, rearranging the furniture, scratching the name off the mailbox and generally trying to erase all the signs that Shishekly had ever lived there...
...spent $300 million this year on cameras and gadgets, in order to snap Haitian market women, Manhattan shoeshine boys, Indian fakirs, and (above all) Junior, aged three. Innumerable times he went through the sweet agony of fetching his prints from the corner drugstore or the mailbox,* and if his work did not come out well, he blamed the unknown vandals in the darkroom, the makers of the camera, the film, the subject, and sometimes even himself. He spoiled about 10% of his film, enough to make individual shots of the entire population of the North American continent, and took enough...
...different fate met the Council's recent stand on academic freedom and Congressional investigations. The wire services carried its statement to newspapers, large and small, across the nation. Letters reflecting a spectrum of political beliefs soon swelled the Council mailbox...