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...profile microbiologist credited with developing some 40 vaccines--a record--and saving more lives than any other 20th century scientist; in Philadelphia. Persuaded to go to college by his brother, who thought he should aim higher than his job as a clerk at a local J.C. Penney, the Montana farm boy eventually took what turned out to be a three-decade-long job at pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. he developed eight of the 14 vaccines currently recommended to protect children against measles, mumps, hepatitis A and B, and chickenpox...
...flying back that afternoon to my home in Livingston, Mont. A look of concern came over the fellow's face that was similar to the expression on Montanans' faces when they had heard I was visiting New York City. "Take care of yourself. Be careful," the fellow said. Montana, he contended, was a bastion of dangerous right-wing zealotry. Not only did the state's residents carry guns, persecute environmentalists and gather behind barbed wire in encampments like the one where the notorious Freemen engaged in an armed standoff with federal agents, but Montana's highways had no speed limits...
...located in a region called the Reading Prong, from which larger-than-normal quantities of radon rise. The region stretches from Reading, Pa., eastward across northern New Jersey and into New York State, High levels of indoor radon have also been found in Maine, New Hampshire, central Florida, Idaho, Montana, the Carolinas, Georgia, Texas, California and Washington State...
...world of real missiles that Nixon conjures up is one he has never visited. Some of that world lies in Montana, where 200 Minuteman missiles are planted in 23,000 sq. mi. of flat farmland extending from the middle of the state to the northern Rockies. Spread out at good distances from one another are 150 Minuteman IIs and 50 Minuteman IIIs, representing 20% of the total 1,000-lCBM force to which Nixon referred. A Minuteman III travels at more than 15,000 m.p.h. at an altitude of 700 miles. Flying over the Pole, it can reach its target...
...years you are: Fly-fishing in Montana...