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Lincoln Day is the annual occasion for Republican orators to take to the field, potshot at the opposition, and praise the Grand Old Party. Last week there was plenty of potshotting and praising. In Niagara Falls, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller charged the Democratic Administration and Congress with a civil-rights record that "must constitute one of the most cynical exploitations of minority aspirations that has ever occurred in the history of American politics." Gibed G.O.P. National Committee Chairman William Miller in Battle Creek, Mich.: "To get a real top job in the New Frontier, you first must...
...milk demonstration was made at the urgent request of the Agriculture Department. Last year, it seems, the U.S.'s 46 million cows contentedly did their duty-but the U.S. public did not. To be sure, Americans put away some 26.4 billion quarts of milk (enough to keep Niagara's Horseshoe Falls flowing at the usual rate for one hour), but that was about 35 million quarts down from the previous year. If that trend continues, the U.S. taxpayer will almost certainly have to fork out even more than the $300 million paid for supports for milk and other...
Courthouse v. White House. Carrying out that assignment, O'Brien crossed the nation nine times, traveling 100.000 miles, talking deep into every night, stoking himself with three packs of Pall Malls, a Niagara of black coffee each day. He set up the local organizations, staffed mostly by enthusiastic amateurs in the states where Kennedy had to win presidential primaries to have any real hope for the Democratic nomination. O'Brien could also talk turkey with such patronage-minded politicans as a local West Virginia leader who told him bluntly: "I'm not interested in the White House...
Fountain displays have slopped more than 150 tons of water onto the stage per day. Niagara Falls once poured out of the wings. A full-sized train chugged uphill. One show used a helicopter, another a four-engine bomber, and a third shot Sputniks into the flies. Chariots have been drawn by live horses galloping on treadmills. Ships have been torpedoed and sunk, descending via the huge, tripartite stage elevator. The Christmas show always features a creche program, and at Eastertime the stage turns into a cathedral, and the girls of the corps de ballet turn into nuns, forming...
...with 13 canisters of oxygen in case he was trapped behind the falls' water curtain-a precaution dictated by another fallsman who went over in a steel barrel in 1930, spent 22 hours behind the curtain, suffocated when his air supply ran out. Trucking his sphere to the Niagara River, Boya launched it into the current, climbed aboard and floated off. Niagara Parks Commission Chief Edward Rehfeld, who takes a dim view of such adventures, spotted the contraption two miles above the falls, put in a frantic call for a U.S. Army helicopter (no pilot available), then chased after...