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Oh, it isn't really a matter of conformity. The roar of the twenties was also a sort of conformity; the goldfish swallowing, the ukuleles, 'coon coats, and straw hats were standard gear in every college town from Des Moines of Hanover. But it was a standard of abnormally, and...
By late afternoon the Sixth Fleet had sailed: from Cannes the 60,000-ton supercarrier Forrestal, from Naples the 45,000-ton battleship Wisconsin, from Leghorn the carrier Lake Champlain, from Villefranche and Marseille the heavy cruisers Salem and Des Moines. With them steamed a swarm of destroyers, transports, tankers...
In a society as complex as the U.S., it takes more than one man, or one newspaper, or one committee to focus the national attention on a serious problem. While the U.S. Senate's McClellan committee has produced the national headlines on labor racketeering, it was vigilant newsmen, from...
Example. In Des Moines, Floyd Kinney canceled a farm-safety lecture to the 4-H Club after he cleaned a tractor with gasoline, washed his hands, lit a cigarette, was taken to the hospital with burns.
ON a sweltering day in Washington last summer Reporter Clark Mollenhoff of the Des Moines Register strolled into the offices of the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to see the chief counsel, Robert Francis Kennedy. Things were kind of quiet around town, said Mollenhoff: there must be...