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...Public development of power resources at Niagara Falls, N.Y., which a Senate committee recently approved, even though "private enterprise has offered to fully develop the waterway, pay all local and federal taxes, supply construction funds, and make the power available to customers throughout the entire service area without favor or discrimination...
Downtown on the Ginza, a big department store was doing a hotcakes business in a $3,000 "bride's special" -wedding kimono, TV set, gas range, refrigerator, washing machine, furniture, trousseau and a supply of salad dressing -while the enterprising hotelkeepers of Atami, Japan's Niagara Falls, offered special rates on honeymoon suites with "a bathtub just big enough for two." November is Japan's traditional wedding season,* and with 700,000 couples either wed or affianced, this year's season promises to be perhaps the biggest since World...
...week Dr. James W. Moffett of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was getting encouraging results with a selective chemical designed to deal with the predatory eellike sea lamprey which has invaded the Great Lakes and almost exterminated the valuable lake trout (TIME, May 9). The lamprey, which bypassed Niagara Falls via the Welland Ship Canal, attaches itself to fish with a tooth-armed sucker and bores and sucks them to death. It has done so much damage to lake fisheries that the U.S. and Canada are spending large sums to cope with...
...wedding present of a snappy Mercedes-Benz wrapped in cellophane and bedecked with pink carnations and blue irises. After the wedding luncheon in the historic Palazzo Brandolini, the newlyweds, whose titles date back to the Middle Ages and whose family fortunes are immense, were off on their honeymoon-to Niagara Falls...
Analyst Jones never manages to explain fully Freud's peculiar hostility toward the U.S. He lists trivia, such as 53-year-old Freud's oversensitiveness (surely immature) when a guide in Niagara's Cave of the Winds called: "Let the old fellow go first." And he notes that Freud unfairly blamed rich U.S. food for intestinal trouble that actually antedated his visit by several years, and was probably a psychosomatic remnant of his earlier neurosis. "I often said to myself," Freud once wrote, "that whoever is not master of his Konrad should not set out on travels...